Solar power is the energy from the sun that is converted into thermal or electrical energy. Solar panels generate electricity directly from the sunlight via an electronic process and can be used to power anything from small electronics such as street lights, fans, Led lights to solar water heaters, geysers, solar water treatment plants etc.

The three types of solar panels are monocrystalline, polycrystalline, and thin-film solar panels. Each of these types of solar cells is made in a unique way and has a different aesthetic appearance. Here’s the breakdown for each type of solar panel.

Monocrystalline solar panels are the oldest type of solar panel and the most developed. These solar are made from about 40 of the monocrystalline solar cells. These solar cells are made from pure silicon. Monocrystalline solar cells appear black because of the way sunlight interacts with pure silicon. While the cells are black, there are variety of colors and designs of the black sheets and frames. The monocrystalline cells are shaped like a square with the corners removed, so there aresmall gaps between the cells.

Polycrystalline solar panels are a newer development, but they are rising quickly in popularity and efficiency. Just like monocrystalline cells, polycrystalline cells are made from silicon. But polycrystalline cells are made from fragments of the silicon crystal melted together.

Polycrystalline cells are blue in color because of the way sunlight reflects on the crystals. Sunlight reflects off of silicon fragments differently than it does with a pure silicon cell. Usually the back frames and frames are silver with polycrystalline, but there can be variation. The shape of the cell is a square, and there are no gaps between corners of cells.

Thin-film solar panels are an extremely new development in the solar panel industry. The most distinguishing feature of thin-film panels is that they aren’t always made from silicon. They can be made from a variety of materials, including cadmium telluride (CdTe), amorphous silicon (a-Si), and Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS).As their name suggests, thin-film panels are easy to identify by their thin appearance. These panels are approximately 350 times thinner than those that use silicon wafers. But thin-film frames can be large sometimes, and that can make the appearance of the entire solar system comparable to that of a monocrystalline or polycrystalline system. Thin-film cells can be black or blue, depending on the material they were made from.Thin film soar cells provide better ways to produce electricity from sunlight than any other method. We can implement these panels in forest areas, solar fields, traffic and street lights, and so on. The cost of this panel is very less as compared to the older silicon wafer cells.