List of types of solar cells

A solar cell (also called photovoltaic cell or photoelectric cell) is a solid state electrical device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect, which is a physical and chemical phenomenon. It is a form of photoelectric cell, defined as a device whose electrical characteristics, such as current, voltage or resistance, vary when exposed to light.

The following are the different types of solar cells.


 * Amorphous Silicon solar cell (a-Si)
 * Biohybrid solar cell
 * Cadmium telluride solar cell (CdTe)
 * Concentrated PV cell (CVP and HCVP)
 * Copper indium gallium selenide solar cells (CI(G)S)
 * Crystalline silicon solar cell (c-Si)
 * Aluminium Back surface field (Al-BSF)
 * Passivated Emitter Rear Cell (PERC)
 * Tunnel Oxide Passivated Contact (TOPCon)
 * Heterojunction (HJT)
 * Float-zone silicon
 * Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC)
 * Gallium arsenide germanium solar cell (GaAs)
 * Hybrid solar cell
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 * Luminescent solar concentrator cell (LSC)
 * Micromorph (tandem-cell using a-Si/μc-Si)
 * Monocrystalline solar cell (mono-Si)
 * Multi-junction solar cell (MJ)
 * Nanocrystal solar cell
 * Organic solar cell (OPV)
 * Perovskite solar cell
 * Photoelectrochemical cell (PEC)
 * Plasmonic solar cell
 * Polycrystalline solar cell (multi-Si)
 * Quantum dot solar cell
 * Solid-state solar cell
 * Thin-film solar cell (TFSC)
 * Wafer solar cell, or wafer-based solar cell crystalline
 * Non concentrated hetrogeneos PV cell