ELI5, how are solar panels made and can they be made in a form that isn’t a rigid rectangle?

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ELI5, how are solar panels made and can they be made in a form that isn’t a rigid rectangle?

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You can make flexible solar panels, and you can make them in non-rectangle shapes. They are, I believe, commercially available.

Most solar panels are rectangular because the surface they’re on is rectangular, and rectangles are easy to tessalate so you don’t need (too many) different sizes/shapes to cover a large area. Making them flexible means making them thinner and less durable – which isn’t worth the flexibility for a vast majority of applications – though in some niche cases, it sees use.

I’ll let someone else answer the first part, since I don’t know enough about it to ELU5

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