So you want to know how solar panels are made? This tutorial will help you understand how solar panels are made, and some of the basic science of how solar panels work. This is intended as a general overview of how solar panels work. Each of the many topics covered in this tutorial could themselves have a whole tutorial written about them. This tutorial is aimed at people who don’t know a lot about electronics, and just want a general overview of how solar panels work without delving into too much depth about volts, and amps and other terms. I will try and keep it as simple as possible, if you are interested leave me a comment and I will write some more in depth tutorials on how solar technology works.
So first lets work on a bit of terminology.
Solar Cell: An photovoltaic (photo for light, voltaic for electricity) cell, or solar cell. Depending on what kind of solar cell you have it is made differently, we will talk about some ways to make them in a bit.