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Retinal Type of Photovoltaic Cell
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Retinal Type of Photovoltaic Cell

  • IRVIN LEVIN1 

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IT is known that the retina of the animal is a photovoltaic mosaic composed of countless minute individual light receptors. The gradual development of multiple electrode photovoltaic cells may perhaps lead to an actual working model of the retina.

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  1. Ruben, S., U.S. Patent No. 1,907,124, filed 1929.

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LEVIN, I. Retinal Type of Photovoltaic Cell. Nature 181, 832 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/181832a0

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