State of Art of Solar Photovoltaic Technology

Abstract

Solar electricity is more expensive than that produced by traditional sources. But over the past two decades, the cost gap has been closing. Solar photovoltaic (SPV) technology has emerged as a useful power source of applications such as lightning, meeting the electricity needs of villages, hospitals, telecommunications, and houses. The long and increasing dominance of crystalline silicon in photovoltaic (PV) market is perhaps surprising given the wide variety of materials capable of producing the photovoltaic effect. PV based on silicon wafers has captured more than 90% market share because it is more reliable and generally more efficient than competing technologies. The crystalline silicon PV is reliable as far as long term stability in real field but it is not economically viable due to starting material silicon itself costly. But still, research continues on developing a diverse set of alternative photovoltaic technology. Now PV technology is being increasingly recognized as a part of the solution to the growing energy challenge and an essential component of future global energy production. In this paper, we give a brief review about PV technology particularly crystalline silicon PV including the world and Indian PV scenarios.

Prospecting technologies for photovoltaic solar energy: Overview of its technical‐commercial viability

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“…Monocrystalline silicon They offer excellent conversion efficiency, as long as they have high manufacturing costs, higher energy requirements during their life cycle, longer energy return time, and require the use of very pure materials (solar grade silicon) and perfect crystal. [54][55][56][57][58][59][60] Polycrystalline silicon The cost of production is lower, less efficient than monocrystalline, has a better aesthetic appearance, consumes less energy during its life cycle, shorter energy return time, less greenhouse gas emissions, requires less energy in the crystal structure need not be perfect. [54][55][56][57][58][59][60] Silicon nanowires If compared with monocrystalline and multicrystalline cells, it needs less silicon to obtain the same amount of absorption.…”

Integrating photovoltaic cells into decorative architectural glass using traditonal glasspainting techniques and fluorescent dyes

“…This type of solar cell was chosen, as these are the most widely used in architecture, due to a good balance between cost, lifetime and efficiency [22].…”

Purification and Characterization of SiO2 Based Quartz Sand from qPasir Putihq Village, South Pamona District

“…In the past years, a few silicon purifying industries had started producing the silicon as the material especially to be applied for the solar cell system by looking at the development of the silicon production for solar cell, as well as the projection of the solar cell marketing in the future [4]. Today, silicon solar cell (first generation) is still dominating the marketing world which is about 80% [5]. The third generation of the solar cell like dye-sensitized solar cell, organic photovoltaic, and others are still under a research phase and haven't entered the mass production phase yet [2], [6], [7].…”