DOE supports crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) research and development efforts that lead to market-ready technologies.| Energy.gov
Improving photovoltaic (PV) efficiency is a key goal of research and helps make PV technologies cost-competitive with conventional sources of energy.| Energy.gov
Part 1 of the PV Cells 101 primer explains how a solar cell turns sunlight into electricity and why silicon is the semiconductor that usually does it.| Energy.gov
Learn the basics of how photovoltaic (PV) technology works with these resources from the DOE Solar Energy Technologies Office.| Energy.gov