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Manufacturing a solar cell?

Posted at: 2015-05-24 
is there any other material that can replace silicon when manufacturing solar cell/panel

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell#...

There a company on the market know testing 3-d printing of solar wafer, ultimately modules.

Check this article, pretty cool stuff

http://www.treehugger.com/clean-technolo...

from a quick Google search i found articles on scientific american pointing to carbon and this article below references Iron pyrite as top pick by university of california and states ther are 8 other top picks:

http://www.dailytech.com/Scientists+Find...

Probably

but

Its most likely on a different planet.

is there any other material that can replace silicon when manufacturing solar cell/panel