Talk:Theory of solar cells

This should be part of the solar cell article. There should be references in it to the photoelectric effect and semiconductors (and many other phenomena). The title isn't even grammatically correct.Menswear (talk) 15:40, 14 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. This should be titled "Theory of Solar Cell Operation". How does one change this?FIXMattic (talk) 20:20, 1 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's quite long and math-intensive, I suggest it stays here with a better introductory paragraph than the one I just spliced on. --Wtshymanski (talk) 18:30, 4 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Why is the opening sentence worded the way it is?[edit]

Is there some reason that the opening sentence of this article says that "heat" is converted to electricity? It is not heat, it is electromagnetic radiation, usually visible light and nearby wavelengths. Only by an extremely loose definition could electromagnetic radiation be called "heat." LaurentianShield (talk) 18:40, 26 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

On the mobile version of the page, the formulas are not visible. I don'tknow how to fix that. 121.44.10.112 (talk) 01:40, 20 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

current proportional to light ?[edit]

Is the photo-generated current I subscript L basically proportional to the number of suitable photons ? If the intensity of the sunlight is reduced by half, does this reduce the current approximately by half ? What about the voltage ? It seems to me, an obvious question which this article does not seem to answer.Lathamibird (talk) 10:39, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Figure might be innacurate[edit]

The lack of a dopant energy level in the figure is kind of weird, as far as i know, the excited electron should transition into the dopant, not the conduction band, which should make the actual electron stationary, therefore only the electron hole moves. Nknka (talk) 15:19, 23 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]