Talk:Polycrystalline silicon photovoltaics

What to do
This article is very informative. However its name

Polycrystalline silicon photovoltaics

is rather inappropriate since there is lots of information about non-polysilicon.

Other related articles
 * Polycrystalline silicon
 * Monocrystalline silicon
 * Amorphous silicon

They are not just about the material and also do compare to each other. Also, amorphous silicon is part of Thin-film solar cell and the distinction between crystalline and thin-film technology gets blurred.

Also there are silicon related articles about
 * Nanocrystalline silicon
 * Micromorph

that are barly mentioned (if at all). So the article isn't either about the use of silicon in PV. Furthermore the article also discusses and links to non silicon related PV technologies e.g. "...Cadmium-Tellurium (CdTe) and Copper-Indium-Selenium (CIS) polycrystalline..", which really blows the scope of any article.

Normally there are articles about a specific PV technology and a second article about the material used for this technology. E.g. Cadmium telluride photovoltaics (technology) and Cadmium telluride (material).

Here the article insn't about a technology, but rather about the prominent silicon PV technologies. No idea what to do. Merge, rename (silicon used in PV), ignore...? Rfassbind (talk) 22:49, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Split-up
I intend to split-up the article and move its content to:
 * Article Polycrystalline silicon
 * section "Potential for use of polycrystalline silicon"
 * section "Novel ideas for polycrystalline silicon"
 * ArticleCrystalline silicon
 * section "Forms of silicon"
 * section "Low temperature induced crystallization of amorphous silicon"
 * Article Thin_film_solar_cell
 * section "Thin film solar cells" will be merged,

All images including those I've added recently will be transferred as well.

After the copy/edit process I'll post here again (for the sake of documentation)ö This article will then be emptied and a redirect will point to Polycrystalline silicon Thx, - Rfassbind (talk) 11:03, 17 September 2014 (UTC)