how do solar cells make electricity
How the sunlight turns into electricity. The solar cells are made of silicon, that has been combined with other materials in such a way that there are extra electrons in one part of the cell, and missing electrons in another part of the cell.
A solar cell, or photovoltaic cell (in very early days also termed solar battery â a denotation which nowadays has a totally different meaning, see here), is an electrical device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect, which is a physical and chemical phenomenon.