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The seminar report discusses flexible solar cells and their production using roll-to-roll printing technology. It explains how solar cells work by converting sunlight into electricity using the photovoltaic effect. The report concludes that solar energy will become the most important and cost-efficient energy source in the future as new thin film and third generation technologies are developed to address the current lack of silicon and increase cell efficiencies.
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This seminar presentation provides an overview of solar cells, including their history, working principle, types, benefits, applications, and disadvantages. It begins with an introduction and then discusses the following key points:
- Solar cells convert sunlight directly into electricity via the photoelectric effect. They are also known as photovoltaic or photoelectric cells.
- The concept originated in the 1839 discovery of the photoelectric effect and was further explained by Einstein in 1905. The first highly efficient silicon solar cell was developed in 1954.
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