Why all solar panels are secretly LEDs (and all LEDs are secretly solar panels)

Part 2 - explainer video is here: • How diodes, LEDs and s...
LEDs and solar panels are both made of diodes. A diode is just designed to allow electricity to flow in one direction but because we make them out of semiconductors they can do all these other things.
Video produced in cooperation with Merck ( / merckgroup . Merck is known as Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany in the United States.
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