Could you melt silicon and dope it yourself with boron / phosphorous for making solar cells for a solar panel?
I was wondering, assuming that you could attain these resources, if you could essentially form Your Own sheets of the 2 different types of silicon.
There are a few university labs that are capable of the kind of precision and cleanliness required. . Silicon doped at .001% is hopelessly contaminated. You would still have to form the oxide insulation layer, etch windows in it for contacts and vacuum-deposit ultrapure metal for electrical conduction. About the best you could manage in a home lab would be a simple diode.
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