Solar Cell
Jun 12 2009, Priyanka Khanghta

Talk about harvesting electricity wirelessly has been in the air for some time now. Apparently, it appears that it will become a reality sooner than expected.

Earlier this year, Joshua Smith at Intel and Alanson Sample at the University of...

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