Multicrystalline Solar Panels

Polycrystalline solar panels are also referred to as multi crystalline or many crystal silicon.

Multicrystalline solar panels.

However instead of using a single crystal of silicon manufacturers melt many fragments of silicon together to form the wafers for the panel. About 5 tons of polysilicon is required to manufacture 1 megawatt mw of conventional solar modules. Multicrystalline panels are lower resistant to heat. Instead of using a single crystal of silicon however multicrystalline manufacturers melt many fragments of silicon together to form the solar panel wafers.

Polysilicon is distinct from monocrystalline silicon and amorphous silicon. Multicrystalline solar panels sometimes referred to as polycrystalline are made from silicon similar to their monocrystalline counterparts. Polycrystalline solar panels are also made from silicon. Poly multi crystalline solar panels are slightly cheaper to manufacture than mono crystalline solar panels.

A polycrystalline solar panel sometimes called multicrystalline is made from polycrystalline solar cells like this one. Due to tighter spacing of the cells on multi poly crystalline solar panels compared to mono crystalline solar panels the higher efficiency of mono crystalline solar panels is negligible. This is a merit in that this solar panel has a higher temperature coefficient than those panels made from mono cells.