Read more: The 20 Best Mac Apps That Will Improve Your Apple Experience Before getting into the different types of panels, it's useful to recap exactly how solar photovoltaic systems work.

The Turkish Antarctic Expedition placed four different PV module types - monocrystalline, polycrystalline, flexible and ...

Offering arguably better bandgap properties than traditional silicon cells, perovskite-based PV panels also promise to be cheaper and (literally) more flexible, but commercialization has been elusive.