Solar photovoltaic (PV) cells, which use solar panels to directly generate energy are popular for individual buildings or small geographic areas, but large scale use is expensive.

使用太阳能面板直接发电的太阳能光伏电池在个别建筑和小型地理区域是受欢迎的，但是大规模的使用是非常昂贵的。

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Solar PV (photovoltaic) cells generate electricity directly from sunlight.

太阳能光伏电池直接利用阳光发电。

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They also have hopes that when the efficiency of the amorphous silicon photovoltaic cells improves in the future, it may become possible to mass-produce the si PV cells by using a roll-to-roll method.

他们希望将来，当非晶态硅光伏电池的光电转化效率提高后，能利用卷到卷式的生产方式进行大规模的硅光伏电池的生产。

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