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Solar Cell Types

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types of light gathered by solar cell?

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It depends on the material that the solar cell is made of. The way that a solar cell works (well, if you simplify it a lot) is that the incoming light makes electrons jump from a low energy level into a high energy level across an energy barrier called the band gap. The solar cell can respond to any light that has more energy per photon than the material's band gap.

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