The vegetables are grown under thin film, semi-transparent cadmium telluride (St-CdTe) modules with a transparency of 40%, bifacial monocrystalline silicon (BF-Si) modules with a transparency of 5 ...

According to the study's authors, the semi-transparent photodetectors boast substantial built-in gain, enabling the placement of opaque read-out electronics at a distance from the detector array.