How Solar Power Works

A thorough exploration of the central concepts that make solar power work. Get on Patreon and help fund my 3D animation obsession! It wouldn’t feel right to put sponsorship segments in the middle of high quality educational content, so let’s try another way together: Need 3D illustration and animation? Have suggestions for what to explain next? Animagraffs can help! Let’s chat: License Animagraffs work for your own purposes See more explanations of how things work at: I use Blender 3D to create these models. It’s free and open source, and the community is amazing: Chapters 0:00 Intro 1:16 P-N Junction 3:13 Space Charge Region 5:28 Supporting Structures 5:43 Anti-Reflective Layer 6:30 Front Contact 6:42 Passivation 6:56 Rear Contact 7:14 Module