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Optoelectronics is the field of Solar Powered Electricity

Optoelectronics is the study and application of electronic devices that source, detect and control light, usually considered a sub-field of photonics. In this context, light often includes invisible forms of radiation such as gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet and infrared. In addition to visible light. Optoelectronic devices are electrical-to-optical or optical-to-electrical transducers, or instruments that use such devices in their operation. Electro-optics is often erroneously used as a synonym, but is a wider brand of physics that concerns all interactions between light and electric fields, whether or not they form part of an electronic device.

Optoelectronics is based on quantum mechanical effects of light on electronic materials especially semiconductors, sometimes in the presence of electronic fields.

  • Photoelectric or photovoltaic effect, used in:

  • photodiodes (including solar cells)

  • phototransistors

  • photomultipliers

  • optoisolators

  • integrated optical circuit (IOC) elements

  • Photoconductivity, used in:

  • photoresistors

  • photoconductive camera tubes

  • charge-coupled imaging devices

  • Stimulated emission, used in:

  • injection laser diodes

  • quantum cascade lasers

  • Lossev effect, or radiative recombination, used in:

  • light-emitting diodes or LED

  • OLEDs

  • Photoemissivity, used in

  • photoemissive camera tube

Important applications[2] of optoelectronics include:

  • Optocoupler

  • Optical fiber communications

Theory in Solar Cell Technology

  • Photons in sunlight hit the solar panel and are absorbed by semiconducting materials such as silicon.

  • Electrons are excited from their current molecular/atomic orbital. Once excited, an electron can either dissipate the energy as heat and return to its orbital or travel through the cell until it reaches an electrode. Current flows through the material to cancel the potential and this electricity is captured. The chemical bonds of the material are vital for this process to work, and usually silicon is used in two layers, one layer being bonded with boron, the other is with phosphorus. These layers have different chemical electric charges and subsequently both drive and direct the current of electrons.

  • An array of solar cells converts solar energy into a usable amount of direct current (DC) electricity.

  • An inverter can convert the power to alternating current (AC).

The most commonly known solar cell is configured as large-area p-n junction made from silicon.

A p-n junction is a boundary or interface between two types of semiconductor material, p-type and n-type, inside a single crystal of semiconductor. The "p" (positive) side contains an excess of electron hole, while the "n" (negative) side contains an excess of electrons. The p-n junction is created by doping, for example by ion implantation, diffusion of of dopants, or by epitax. If two separate pieces of material were used, this would introduce a grain boundary between the semiconductors that would severely inhibit its utility by scattering the electrons and holes.

Closed-System and Scattering

An open system in solar cell technology is the absorption of light convertible energy to electricity, while the closed system dynamics in light-electricity conversion is applied. In thermodynamics, a closed system can exchange (as heat or work) but not matter with its surroundings. An isolated system cannot exchange any heat, work or matter with the surroundings, while an open system can exchange energy and matter.

This would allow the multiple and single Scattering to occur in the energy field of the solar cell light-electricity conversion circuit.

Ionizing Radiation of Mandala Energy

Ionizing radiation (ionising radiation) is a radiation that carries enough energy to free electrons from atoms or molecules, thereby ionizing them. Ionizing radiation is made up of energetic subatomic particles, ions or atoms moving at high speeds (usually greater than 1% of the speed of light), and electromagnetic waves on the high-energy end of the electrogmagnetic spectrum.

Electrical Effects

The ionization of materials temporarily increases their conductivity.

Reference:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optoelectronics


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