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 drastically adopted due to cost issues and until 70s energy crises they remained out of focus. It is clearly the early versions of Solar Cells that the mono-crystalline Solar Cell were used for off-grid/remote applications where price per Watt could be anything due to no cheap alternative to electricity. Mainly, the crystalline covered the first generation. Thick wafers in the beginning. The variation in first generation which is understood as a bulk semiconductor that's sliced into a thin sheet that can then be converted into a Solar harvesting device. With less contender technologies, the first generation technology not only embodies a lot of energy, they are expensive to make. You have to heat up semiconductors with high melting point, some refining etc. etc. So much so, you can not scale up to realize multi- Giga Watt scale.
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 drastically adopted due to cost issues and until 70s energy crises they remained out of focus. It is clearly the early versions of Solar Cells that the mono-crystalline Solar Cell were used for off-grid/remote applications where price per Watt could be anything due to no cheap alternative to electricity. Mainly, the crystalline covered the first generation. Thick wafers in the beginning. The variation in first generation which is understood as a bulk semiconductor that's sliced into a thin sheet that can then be converted into a Solar harvesting device. With less contender technologies, the first generation technology not only embodies a lot of energy, they are expensive to make. You have to heat up semiconductors with high melting point, some refining etc. etc. So much so, you can not scale up to realize multi- Giga Watt scale.