Inside the First Solar-Powered Flight Around the World
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The non-exclusive licence enables First Solar—the solar manufacturer and the thin-film solar technology producer to develop photovoltaic (PV) devices that employ a perovskite
First Solar gets access to Oxford PV perovskite patents
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Solar Impulse: First Solar-Powered Global Flight
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The first photovoltaic balloon takes flight — And it
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