Solar cell

Quality:

Solar cell - electrical device that converts the energy of light directly into electricity by the photovoltaic effect. Article “Solar cell” in English Wikipedia has 74.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 230 references and 41 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 18.52 points.

This article has the best quality in Tamil Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

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The 9961^st most popular in English Wikipedia.

en

The 3663^rd most editable in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5909^th most popular in all topics.

The 3335^th most popular in AI.

In June 2026 the article “Solar cell” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 15 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Solar cell”, its content was written by 1282 registered users of English Wikipedia (3663^rd place) and edited by 4343 registered Wikipedia users in all languages (3335^th place).

The article is cited 1696 times in English Wikipedia and cited 11073 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #683 in October 2008
• Global: #692 in January 2010

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2380 in March 2009
• Global: #1671 in April 2009

There are 51 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Tamil (ta) சூரிய மின்கலம்		100
2	Croatian (hr) Solarni članak		98.0168
3	German (de) Solarzelle		95.5929
4	Turkish (tr) Güneş pili		87.8972
5	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Solarna ćelija		82.0181
6	Thai (th) เซลล์แสงอาทิตย์		81.4624
7	Indonesian (id) Sel surya		77.2879
8	English (en) Solar cell		74.0925
9	Hungarian (hu) Napelem		70.9954
10	Slovak (sk) Fotovoltický článok		69.6872

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Solar cell		14 531 850
2	German (de) Solarzelle		4 303 193
3	Japanese (ja) 太陽電池		3 466 334
4	Chinese (zh) 太阳能电池		2 804 668
5	French (fr) Cellule photovoltaïque		1 829 453
6	Spanish (es) Célula fotoeléctrica		1 726 581
7	Arabic (ar) خلية شمسية		1 052 574
8	Polish (pl) Ogniwo słoneczne		936 417
9	Thai (th) เซลล์แสงอาทิตย์		834 765
10	Russian (ru) Фотоэлемент		739 305

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Solar cell		9 612
2	German (de) Solarzelle		4 380
3	Japanese (ja) 太陽電池		1 679
4	Chinese (zh) 太阳能电池		1 283
5	French (fr) Cellule photovoltaïque		1 039
6	Spanish (es) Célula fotoeléctrica		656
7	Polish (pl) Ogniwo słoneczne		626
8	Persian (fa) سلول خورشیدی		510
9	Russian (ru) Фотоэлемент		414
10	Italian (it) Cella solare		341

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Solar cell		1 282
2	German (de) Solarzelle		630
3	French (fr) Cellule photovoltaïque		289
4	Chinese (zh) 太阳能电池		140
5	Japanese (ja) 太陽電池		124
6	Swedish (sv) Solcell		124
7	Hungarian (hu) Napelem		115
8	Spanish (es) Célula fotoeléctrica		111
9	Finnish (fi) Aurinkokenno		105
10	Hebrew (he) תא פוטו-וולטאי		100

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	German (de) Solarzelle		4
2	Finnish (fi) Aurinkokenno		2
3	Arabic (ar) خلية شمسية		1
4	Bulgarian (bg) Фотоволтаична клетка		1
5	English (en) Solar cell		1
6	Croatian (hr) Solarni članak		1
7	Hungarian (hu) Napelem		1
8	Indonesian (id) Sel surya		1
9	Norwegian (no) Solcelle		1
10	Simple English (simple) Solar cell		1

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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