Photovoltaic Solar Panel

Photovoltaic Solar Panel

Monocrystalline solar cells are generally high performance, but because they waste a bit of space between the cells when they are encapsulated in a solar PV Panel (the little white diamonds in the picture above) they perform about the same (in efficiency and power terms) as polycrystalline.

Some manufacturers use special techniques to make ultra high performance monocrystalline solar PV modules, such as "back surface fields", "laser grooving" and hybrid technologies. These super high performance mono panels get efficiencies of over 20% - which is amazing. But you do pay about 30% more compared to 'normal' monocrystalline solar panels.