Solar Cells - part 1 of I have no idea how many

[liquidcrystals]

So before I go into some really interesting stuff, and by interesting stuff I mean stuff that has to do with liquid crystals, I thought I’d take a moment to cover a little bit of ground on photovoltaics.

Now while I am going to be talking about photovoltaics, I’m going to make the caveats:

1) I’m a chemist, not a physicist.  More

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The long version...

[mackys]

First, http://science.howstuffworks.com/solar-cell.htm

http://www.solarbotics.net/starting/200202_solar_cells/200202_solar_cell_physics.html is also decent intro to PN-junction silicon solar cells, but it assumes you already know about P and N type silicon, and how they behave.