Hexagon solar cells

Hexagon solar cells are an idea for solar cells that are designed and engineered to be made from 200 mm, 300 mm, or 450 mm silicon wafers.  Hexagon solar cells made this way could be highly engineered using additive manufacturing and subtractive manufacturing techniques on the silicon wafers for higher solar-cell efficiency.  Making the solar cells hexagon, better utilizes the circular silicon wafers surface area.  Hexagonal solar cells using multi-junction solar cells, quantum dots, and silicon nanowires could achieve efficiency of over 50%.https://patents.google.com/patent/US4089705A/en

Additive manufacturing techniques
 Inkjet solar cell 
 Slot-die coating
 Chemical vapor deposition
 Atomic layer deposition
 Quantum dot solar cell

Subtractive manufacturing techniques

 Reactive-ion etching
 Metal assisted chemical etching
 Laser ablation

Advantages
 Multi-junction solar cell
 Silicon nanowires
 Plasmonic solar cells
 Superhydrophobic coatings
 Light trapping techniques

Related pages
 Thin-film solar
 Spin coating
 Nanocrystal solar cell
 Surface plasmon resonance

References

Category:Solar energy