This document discusses different generations of solar cells. It begins by explaining the importance of renewable energy sources like solar due to climate change and depletion of fossil fuels. It then describes first generation solar cells, which use monocrystalline and polycrystalline silicon, as well as their advantages of high efficiency and ...
There are three basic generations of solar cells, though one of them doesn't quite exist yet, and research is ongoing. They are designated as first, second, and third, and differ according to their cost and efficiency. The first generation are high-cost, high-efficiency.
Third generation solar cells are just a research target and do not really exist yet. The goal of solar energy research is to produce low-cost, high efficiency cells. This is likely to be thin-film cells that use novel approaches to obtain efficiencies in the range of 30-60%.
Solar cells based on silicon now comprise more than 80% of the world’s installed capacity and have a 90% market share. Due to their relatively high efficiency, they are the most commonly used cells. The first generation of photovoltaic cells includes materials based on thick crystalline layers composed of Si silicon.
Figure 1 illustrates the three generations of existing PV cells. Si wafer technology is the basic technology used for first-generation PV cells. ... ... The integration of PV technology in new buildings continues to progress [3, 4], but the adoption is slow and needs to be expedited.
The second generation, which has been under intense development during the 1990s and early 2000s, are low-cost, low-efficiency cells. These are most frequently thin film solar cells, designs that use minimal materials and cheap manufacturing processes.
5. Fourth Generation of Photovoltaic Cells Fourth-generation photovoltaic cells are also known as hybrid inorganic cells because they combine the low cost and flexibility of polymer thin films, with the stability of organic nanostructures such as metal nanoparticles and metal oxides, carbon nanotubes, graphene, and their derivatives.
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