N - type or P - type solar panel? I need advice
N - type or P - type solar panel? I need advice
I am almost decided to get the Tiger Pro 72HC-TV 530w p-type panels but i dont want to find out later i did a bad decision.
Is there a big practical difference between n-type and p-type solar panels?
Thank you for your advice. It refers to the 'doping' chemical element added to silicon to make the cell function, in p-types is boron and in n-types is phosphorus.
The n or p - type classification is found in the datasheet of the solar panels i am considering to buy.
It seems that the p - type ar cheaper but have much less warranty.
I need some expert opinion to understand if n or p makes a lot of difference in a few years. Thanks I went with N-type panels. I was looking for bifacial panels for my vertical installation and those just came up with very decent price (0,54e/W including four 15kW on-grid inverters, 500m 6mm2 copper wire, 24% VAT and postage). Panels are Bluesun 700W N-type shingled HJT with 22,8% efficiency. The catch is they are 2,4 x 1,3m in size and weight 39kg each. They are not fun to handle.
N-type benefit is that it lacks Light Induced Degradation (LID) completely, so after 30years or so they should still produce over 90% of the original performance. Also N-type usually has better efficiency over P-type.
For me it was a jackpot to find N-type and shingled panels with lowest price offered. Both features should make my panels to last much longer than conventional P-type cells. Shingled cells should also tolerate shadows better than half-cut or any other type cell for that matter. It is how the substrate silicon is doped. Most panels are P type substrates doped with boron. N-type doping is usually phosphorous.
N-type substrate do not suffer much from the boron-oxygen degradation (called 'LID" for light induced degradation) which causes a rapid degradation is the first few hours after exposure to sunlight. For P-substrate this is close to a percent drop in efficiency in the first year of use, but most of this occurs in a few hours after first few hours of sunlight exposure.
N-type substrate also has a bit longer free electron carrier lifetime giving more time for electrons to be collected by metallization on PV cell before free electrons have a chance to recombine with doping holes and be lost to output current yield. This results in a little better cell efficiency. It appears a lot of the bifacial panels use the N-type and that is why I see them make a point of stating "only 0.49%" per year degradation. You didn't mention where the panels would be installed since if they would be on ground then bifacial would be good choice.
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