{"id":272833,"date":"2019-05-04T05:34:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T05:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=272833"},"modified":"2019-05-04T05:34:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T05:34:34","slug":"thin-film-solar-panel-most-suitable-for-applications-with-large-rooftops-or-wide-open-spaces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/thin-film-solar-panel-most-suitable-for-applications-with-large-rooftops-or-wide-open-spaces\/","title":{"rendered":"Thin film solar panel: Most suitable for applications with large rooftops or wide open spaces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What are Thin-Film Solar Panels?<br \/>\nA thin-film solar panel is made up of an assembly of thin-film solar cells. These solar panels convert solar energy to electrical energy by using the principle of the photovoltaic effect. Each thin-film solar cell is made up of several layers of photon-absorbing materials. These layers can be up to 300 &#8211; 350 times smaller than the layers of standard silicon panels. <\/p>\n<p>These solar panels are categorized on the basis of the material that is used as a substrate in them. Materials such as Amorphous Silicon (a-Si), Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS), Cadmium Telluride (CdTe), and Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) are used as substrates. Out of these, thin-film solar panels with a GaAs substrate are the most efficient, about 28.8% more than others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are Thin-Film Solar Panels? A thin-film solar panel is made up of an assembly of thin-film solar cells. These solar panels convert solar energy to electrical energy by using the principle of the photovoltaic effect. Each thin-film solar cell is made up of several layers of photon-absorbing materials. These layers can be up to 300 &#8211; 350 times smaller than the layers of standard silicon panels. These solar panels are categorized on the basis of the material that is used as a substrate in them. Materials such as Amorphous Silicon (a-Si), Copper Indium Gallium Selenide (CIGS), Cadmium Telluride (CdTe), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}