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# Photovoltaic Effect: Turning Sunlight Into Energy

Creating Ultra-Pure Crystallines for Semiconductor Materials Used in Solar Cells

# How Photovoltaics are Impacted by Microgravity

Silicon remains the most common solar cell material and LEO allows for the production of a high-grade crystalline silicon (c-Si), suitable for solar cell applications. In the absence of gravity, a monocrystalline silicon is created that is purer and more uniform in properties. The uniform properties are critical in a number of high-performance device applications that use solar cells including infrared sensors.

**The benefits of solar cells:**

- Clean, renewable electricity using the Sun’s energy
- Low maintenance
- Rapid, scalable growth, more solar panels create more power
- Cost efficient

**Uses of solar cells within solar panels:**

- Power source for small satellites and spacecraft
- Commercial and industrial uses such as power plants
- Agriculture applications
- Used in small calculators, watches and other small electronics
- Solar lighting
- NASA and the US Department of Energy are conducting research into space-based solar power and how it can be harnessed and sent back down to Earth

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**Easy, Renewable, Sustainable Logistics are Within Reach**

Space Phoenix Systems provides affordable, reliable purpose-built logistics to and from low Earth orbit (LEO) to help advance the scaling of photovoltaic technology.

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