We will admit that it is unlikely you have enough gear in your basement to make a solar cell using these steps. However, it is interesting to see how a bare silicon wafer becomes a solar cell.

A solar cell is made of two types of semiconductors, called p-type and n-type silicon. The p-type silicon is produced by adding atoms—such as boron or gallium—that have one less electron in their ...

The most widely used technology for solar panels is crystalline silicon. It has been in existence for more than 50 years and has a global market share of 95%. More than half of all solar panels ...

Researchers in China have have fabricated an aluminum contact-based TOPCon solar cell based that achieved a power conversion ...

Trinasolar announced it has developed an "industrial-standard" solar panel that reaches 800 W. The 3.1 m2 module using ...

Graphene — a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice — is already attracting interest for its various applications in electronics and optoelectronics, including its use as ...

A Chinese-Australian research group has developed a monolithic perovskite-silicon n-type tandem solar cell based on tunnel oxide passivated contacts (TOPCon) tech for the bottom cell.

While silicon is the standard, producing and processing it is energy-intensive, making it costly to build new solar panel ...

Photovoltaic (PV) solutions, which are designed to convert sunlight into electrical energy, are becoming increasingly ...