Norwich, England -- (SBWIRE) -- 07/28/2015 -- Solar cells or photovoltaic cells are the basic electrical device that makes up a solar panel or a photovoltaic module; and which is directly responsible for converting energy from the sun into useful electrical currents through a combination of physical and chemical process called photovoltaic effect. Solar cells differ in terms voltage, resistance and current capacity especially when exposed to natural or artificial light sources in different degrees and length of exposure.

However, typical solar cells only have 15% efficiency in terms of energy conversion leaving 85% of the total energy from the sun in an untransformed or unconverted form. With the increasing demand for electricity and the escalating cost of its production and not to mention the hazardous environmental effects of burning fossil fuels, scientists have persistently been researching and finding ways to improve the solar cell technology; hence increasing the conversion percentage and rate.

Moreover, solar panel producers have come up with a silicon-based solar cell, but the said PV cell can only convert around 22% of sunlight into energy. And a few months after the announcement of the silicon-based prototype, another company has developed a more efficient type of solar cell which could convert sunlight for up to 40.7%. However, with the downfall in some of the research to further improve this technology, some would recommend to utilize mirrors, concentrators, and other sorts of gadgets and devices primarily to increase the sunlight exposure of the solar panels.

Nonetheless, scientists still consistently and constantly innovate on ways to give light to this dilemma; and at this present time, they have come up with the use of the nanoparticles which are absolutely light-sensitive and they are referred to as the colloidal quantum dots. Scientists and researchers have already anticipated that this latest technological advancement in the solar panel industry will be a lot inexpensive, flexible and far more efficient in increasing the absorption of natural light from the sun and effectively converting it by eight percent more than the leading solar panels with the conventional materials.

But, with continuous research some have come up with a new material that can be integrated in the solar panels U.K., that is, the Gallium Arsenide making the photovoltaic systems three times more efficient in the conversion of sunlight into usable energy. And when Gallium Arsenide has been integrated with the cells, the PV cells could now be called as "triple junction cells". The chemical alterations in these chemical compounds are what make the solar cells highly efficient.

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