Abstract
The globally growing solar panel deployment will result into huge solar panel waste in the coming years. The solar panels will form the major portion of E-silicon waste in the future. The efficiency of the panels can be increased and waste can be minimized by utilizing the materials such as nanowires, nanoparticles, nanotubes and other similar electrically and photonically active Nano template. PV manufacturing companies are researching on quantum based and Dye sensitized solar cells to replace silicon solar cells. The waste produced during manufacturing is less and can also be recovered after end of life of the cell. This process will not only help in reducing the installation, manufacturing costs but will also lead to E-silicon waste reduction. It will also reduce the expensive electronic and electric equipment’s used to produce the conventional silicon panels. If the nanosolar technology for PV panels is encouraged it will restrict the practice of exporting silicon waste to developing countries for landfill. The paper analyzes the amount of waste generated when nanotechnology is combined with solar panel technology.
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