Solar Panels Made With a Particle Accelerator?!
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When I first heard about using particle accelerators to create solar panels, I thought… what?!I must not understand how solar panels are made. Or how particle accelerators work? Andyes, there’s a key, unglamorous step that – unless you’re fairly familiar with solarmanufacturing technology (which I’m not) – you probably wouldn’t think of, andit’s in this step where a particle accelerator turns out to be useful: cutting silicon intothe really thin wafers that are the key component of a solar panel.However, even this wasn’t at all what I first thought, which was something like slicingthrough the crystal with a super powerful particle beam. That sounds awesome, but theactual technique is much less insane and much more clever.Ok, so a typical solar pane...
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When I first heard about using particle accelerators to create solar panels, I thought… what?!I must not understand how solar panels are made. Or how particle accelerators work? Andyes, there’s a key, unglamorous step that – unless you’re fairly familiar with solarmanufacturing technology (which I’m not) – you probably wouldn’t think of, andit’s in this step where a particle accelerator turns out to be useful: cutting silicon intothe really thin wafers that are the key component of a solar panel.However, even this wasn’t at all what I first thought, which was something like slicingthrough the crystal with a super powerful particle beam. That sounds awesome, but theactual technique is much less insane and much more clever.Ok, so a typical solar pane...
