MinutePhysics

Solar Panels Made With a Particle Accelerator?! (2017x18)

Air date: Sep 19, 2017

This video is about using particle accelerators as part of the solar panel silicon wafer manufacturing process. The accelerators embed protons into the wafer crystals, allowing them to break and separate from the main crystal in much thinner wafers with no waste silicon. Thus, monocrystalline silicon can be used, which is more efficient.