Solar Cell
date: label: Date made
content: 1977-10
label: Date made
content: October 1977
name: label: maker
content: RCA Laboratories
notes: label: Description
content: David E. Carlson (1942-2019) and Christopher Wronski (1939-2017), physicists working at the RCA Research Laboratories, in Princeton, N.J., created the first amorphous silicon photo voltaic cells in 1976. This example of that amazingly powerful device was made in their laboratory in October 1977. An inscription on the back reads "5-10-26-77".
label: Description
content: Ref: Stacy V. Jones, “Patents. Solar Cells for Inexpensive Electricity,” New York Times (Dec. 24, 1977), p. 34.
label: Description
content: David E. Carlson, Christopher R. Wronski, and Alfred R. Triano, Jr., “Schottky Barrier Semiconductor Device and Method of Making Same,” U. S. Patent 4,142,192 (Feb. 27, 1979).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New Jersey, Princeton
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Chemistry
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of RCA/David Sarnoff Research Center
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CH.337000
label: accession number
content: 1979.0187
label: catalog number
content: 337000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Solar Cell
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1.5 mm x 77 mm x 77 mm; 1/16 in x 3 1/32 in x 3 1/32 in