Multicrystalline Solar Panels

Instead of using a single crystal of silicon however multicrystalline manufacturers melt many fragments of silicon together to form the solar panel wafers.

Multicrystalline solar panels.

Poly multi crystalline solar panels are slightly cheaper to manufacture than mono crystalline solar panels. Polycrystalline solar panels are also made from silicon. About 5 tons of polysilicon is required to manufacture 1 megawatt mw of conventional solar modules. Polycrystalline solar panels are also referred to as multi crystalline or many crystal silicon.

A polycrystalline solar panel sometimes called multicrystalline is made from polycrystalline solar cells like this one. This is a merit in that this solar panel has a higher temperature coefficient than those panels made from mono cells. However instead of using a single crystal of silicon manufacturers melt many fragments of silicon together to form the wafers for the panel. Multicrystalline solar panels sometimes referred to as polycrystalline are made from silicon similar to their monocrystalline counterparts.

Polycrystalline solar cells are cheaper to make than monocrystalline cells. This means that its efficiency in producing energy falls as temperatures rise. Multicrystalline panels are lower resistant to heat.