The Plugging into the Sun® flexible solar cell is at the centre of a unique range of renewable energy educational resources and activities.

Assembly kits, activities & experiments:

• model solar car
• solar cell tests
• electric circuit investigations, parallel, series, voltage, current, resistance and power
• rechargable battery maintenance
• solar electric clock kit
• solar powered buzzers, bulbs, motors, LED's, electronic circuits and electromagnetism
• propeller spinners, radio, fan and mini-water pump
• daylight investigations, movement & inclination of the sun, earth's atmosphere and cloud cover

Triple-Junction Cell Specifications:

SINGLE CELL LAMINATE

The tandem laminates were the first generation of this PV technology (effectively two cells in one giving enhanced spectral response so cells respond also to light scattered by cloud cover), and were manufactured by United Solar Systems Corp. based in Troy, MI., USA.

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tandem junction spectrum-splitting PV cells