how can solar panels be transparent if they rely on absorbing light

Question

i saw an article about a new Garmin device utilizing transparent solar panels but how can they let light through if they need to absorb light to create energy
what happened in the solar panel-community?

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Answer 1

The very, absolutely short and oversimplified version is that is absorbs non-visible light. Ultraviolet light, for instance, is essentially non-visible light, that is still there. This is why we call light a “radiation spectrum”, and it goes from infrared (heat) to ultraviolet (more harmful to humans).