Solar panel development cannot be attributed to just one person. There have been a multitude of researchers and scientists who have worked tirelessly down through the Decades since it was first conceived to create the solar panel that we have today. It is generally acknowledged that the first practical photo vault took cell with the work of Russell Ohl in 1941. The breakthrough that Ohl created was the development of the pn junction. Without this significant development the panels would struggle to generate any electricity at all via the photons. Prior to this there had been work creating the solar panel in conceptual and in some cases practical form but it was Ohl and his research that finally made the panel reality. It’s how we can have Solar Panel Installation Yate based company redbridgeandsons.co.uk/solar-pv-panels/solar-panel-installers-yate on hand to complete the job.
The 1950s and 1960s soon saw other researchers take up the baton of development of the soda panel and they began to make important contributions to how a solar cell is built today.
Pearson, Chapin and Fuller took Ohls’ creation and used silicon as a solar cell. It seemed clear that silicon was by far the best material for creating conductivity and would utilise the smallest amount of light possible to create energy. By 1958 Elliot Berman had managed to create an affordable solar panel that could be mass produced. He used selenium instead of silicon to achieve this. in Soviet Russia Zhores Alferov worked to incorporate semiconductors into panels creating even more efficiency with the latest development coming in 1989 by Green and Wenham.