Displays such as liquid crystal displays (10), organic light emitting
diode displays, and touch sensitive displays (41) are stacked with one or
more solar cells (15) such that light passing through the displays will
illuminate the light receiving active surface of the solar cells (15). No
reflector or polarizer need be used when the liquid crystal display (10)
uses cholesteric or polymer dispersed liquid crystals. When using
supertwist nematic or twisted nematic liquid crystals, a reflector (21)
can be used that comprises a selective color reflector. The resultant
display/solar cell can be utilized in combination with a device such as a
wireless communications device (62) with the solar cell (15) providing
electricity to the display (61), the wireless communications device (62),
or both. A mask (71) can be used to occlude surface features on the solar
cell (15) as appropriate to provide a substantially uniformly colored
appearance.