eli5: Do solar panels only work with sunlight, or can they be tuned to capture energy from other wavelengths outside the visible spectrum?

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eli5: Do solar panels only work with sunlight, or can they be tuned to capture energy from other wavelengths outside the visible spectrum?

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I remember watching a video about transparent solar panels, or rather, windows with the ability to gather electricity from non-visible solar rays. The solar panel was in the window, and it was a transparent window. They proposed as a way to use all the surface area of a building with a glass exterior, transforming it to a power generating structure.