How Monocrystalline Solar Panels Are Made

The manufacturing process involves cutting individual wafers of silicon that can be affixed onto a solar panel.

How monocrystalline solar panels are made.

To make solar cells for monocrystalline solar panels silicon is formed into bars and cut into wafers. Monocrystalline solar panel are also called single crystalline silicon solar panel. The silicon bars are cut into thin slices or wafers. The main advantages of moncrystalline panels are higher efficiencies and sleeker aesthetics.

The term monocrystalline refers to the use of single crystal silicon in the production of this kind of solar panel. In order to make pv cells for the monocrystalline solar panels manufacturers use silicon as the basic ingredient. Monocrystalline solar panels are generally thought of as a premium solar product. The silicon in solar panels is manufactured through a reduction process in which the silica is heated with a carbon material and the oxygen is removed leaving behind purer metallurgical grade silicon.

The finished solar cells are soldered together to form ribbons usually about 10 cells long. Because these solar panel are made of single piece of silicon crystal. Mono crystalline silicon cells are more efficient than polycrystalline or amorphous solar cells. These silicon crystal are cylindrical in shape.

From there the grade must be further purified into polysilicon the solar grade purity of which is 99 999 percent. 6 ribbons are then usually laid out to make the matrix of 60 cells that form the solar panel.