Make your own Solar Cells

types of cells

silicon PV cells

• monocrystaline - more expensive - more efficient
• polycrystaline - less expensive - less efficient

how do they work

• http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/solarcells/

How are they made

• http://www.fsec.ucf.edu/en/consumer/solar_electricity/basics/how_cells_made.htm

What is required

silicon

• vacuum chamber
• silicon substrate
• a method if doping
• a method deposition
• phosphorus diffusion furnace
• a method of curing
• coating