List of types of solar cells

For description and history, see Solar cell

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. The following are the different types of solar cells.

• Amorphous Silicon solar cell (a-Si)

• Biohybrid solar cell

• Buried contact 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)

• Dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC)

• Gallium arsenide germanium solar cell (GaAs)

• Hybrid solar cell

• Luminescent solar concentrator cell (LSC)

• Micromorph (tandem-cell using a-Si/μc-Si)

• Monocrystalline solar cell (mono-Si)

• Multijunction solar cell (MJ)

• Nanocrystal solar cell

• Organic solar cell (OPV)

• Perovskite solar cell

• Photoelectrochemical cell (PEC)

• Plasmonic solar cell

• Plastic solar cell

• Polycrystalline solar cell (multi-Si)

• Polymer solar cell

• Quantum dot solar cell

• Solid-state solar cell

• Thin film solar cell (TFSC)

• Wafer solar cell