High-Efficiency Silicon Solar Cell Concepts

This chapter explores approaches that offer higher efficiency potential in solar cells. It outlines the history of high-efficiency laboratory cell development, discusses features that limit screen-printed cells to the relatively modest performance, describes commercial high-efficiency cell designs that overcome some performance limitations, and explores other approaches that show potential.

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