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History of solar PV

Three Generations of Solar Cells

A Solar Cell is a Solar Device that receives sunlight and converts it into electricity. Simple in its constitution., it was in the 50s developed at Bell Labs, and the first Solar Cell came out with an astonishing efficiency of 6%. At that time people anticipated to harness this energy as a source where they sought Solar homes. However, it could not be...

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History of solar PV

Challenges of Solar Electric Energy

Solar energy is available to us in three forms: Solar Fuel, Solar Electric, Solar Thermal. Photovoltaics, or Solar Electric, were described very early and Albert Einstein actually for the Nobel Prize in 1921 for a detailed explanation of the Photoelectric effect that Hertz observed in 1887. The Photovoltaic effect as we know it where, potential develops when we shine light on an object,...

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This blog is about my PhD work and an archive to my engineering education. However, additional study material for the courses i teach and that i have studied is also archived here.
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