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1 Milestones of Solar Conversion and Photovoltaics |
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1.2 Milestones of the Photovoltaics |
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2 PV as a Major Contributor to the -100% Renewably Powered World and Solving the Climate Battle |
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2.1 Today's Energy Situation |
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2.2 Energy Efficiency Measures |
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2.4 Technologies and Market Development for Renewables |
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2.4.2 Solar Power---CSP and CPV |
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19 | (1) |
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2.5 Need for Storage as Solution to Variable Renewable Energies |
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2.6 The ~ 100% Renewably Powered World |
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30 | (1) |
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3 Advanced Solar-Grade Si Material |
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31 | (12) |
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31 | (9) |
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3.1.1 Metallurgical-Grade Silicon: Carbothermic Reduction of Silica as Starting Point for Most Pathways |
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3.1.2 Established Production Methods: Purification of Metallurgical Silicon via the "Silane Route" Is Dominating |
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33 | (1) |
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3.1.3 Differences in Utilizing TCS or Silane as Feedstock |
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34 | (2) |
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3.1.4 Accommodation of the Processes to the PV Requirements |
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36 | (2) |
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3.1.5 The Myths of the "High Energy/High Cost" Rating of Established Silane-Based Polysilicon Deposition Technologies |
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38 | (1) |
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3.1.6 Alternative Technologies for the Production of Solar-Grade Feedstock: Purification of Metallurgical Silicon via Melt Treatment/Crystallization Is Dominating |
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3.1.7 Alternative Vapour Phase Deposition Technologies? |
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3.2 Quality Requirements from the PV Market |
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41 | (2) |
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4 Silicon Nitride and Aluminum Oxide---Multifunctional Dielectric Layers Crucial for the Progress of Silicon Solar Cells |
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43 | (22) |
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43 | (2) |
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4.2 Silicon Nitride Layers for Solar Cells |
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45 | (5) |
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4.2.1 Protection Properties |
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4.2.3 Passivation Properties |
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4.2.4 First Application of Silicon Nitride for Solar Cells |
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48 | (1) |
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4.2.5 Further Optimization of PECVD Silicon Nitride |
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49 | (1) |
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4.3 Plasma-Enhanced Deposition Techniques |
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50 | (3) |
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4.3.1 Parallel Plate Plasma Reactor |
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4.3.2 Remote Plasma Reactor |
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4.4 Silicon Nitride Passivated Bifacial Solar Cells |
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4.5 Aluminum Oxide for Next-Generation Solar Cells |
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56 | (4) |
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4.5.1 Al2O3---Based Rear Surface Passivation Scheme |
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4.5.2 Early Laboratory Results for Al20O3 |
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4.5.3 Revival of Al2O3 as Passivation Layer for PERC Solar Cells |
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59 | (1) |
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4.5.4 Al2O3/SiNx Stacks for PERC Solar Cell |
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60 | (1) |
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60 | (5) |
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5 High-Efficiency Industrial PERC Solar Cells for Monofacial and Bifacial Applications |
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66 | (2) |
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5.2 Industrial PERC Solar Cells |
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68 | (8) |
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5.3 Bifacial PERC+ Solar Cells |
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5.4 AlOx/SiNy Rear Passivation and Local Al Rear Contacts |
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89 | (6) |
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6 High Efficient, Cost-Effective, and Reliable Silicon Solar Cells and Modules in Mass Production |
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6.2 Approaches for Efficient Cell Development and Production |
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6.2.1 Improved Statistical Resolution of Experiments via Tra.Q |
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6.2.2 Root Cause Finding via Tra.Q |
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6.3 Cell Efficiency Development of Q.ANTUM Solar Cells on p-type Silicon Substrates |
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6.4 Light-Induced Degradation of PERC |
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6.4.1 Boron-Oxygen Defect |
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104 | (1) |
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6.4.2 Light and Elevated Temperature Induced Degradation (LeTID) |
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6.4.3 LeTLD Under Real Field Condition |
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6.5 Summary and Conclusion |
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109 | (4) |
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111 | (2) |
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7 Silicon Heterojunction Technology: A Key to High Efficiency Solar Cells at Low Cost |
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113 | (20) |
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7.1 High-Efficiency Silicon PV Technologies Overview |
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113 | (3) |
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7.2 Key Features of SHJ Solar Cell Technology |
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116 | (7) |
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7.2.1 SHJ Cell Technology at a Glance |
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7.2.2 Wafers for SHJ Cells |
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117 | (1) |
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7.2.3 Wafer Texturing and Cleaning |
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118 | (3) |
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7.2.4 Transparent Conductive Oxides |
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7.3 Conversion of "Micromorph" to SHJ Technology |
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7.4 SHJ Module Technology and Reliability Issues |
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125 | (5) |
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7.4.2 Cells Interconnection |
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126 | (1) |
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7.4.4 Perspective Products |
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129 | (1) |
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8 III--V Solar Cells and Concentrator Arrays |
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8.1 Introduction---From Primary Heterostructures to III--V Solar Cells |
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133 | (8) |
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8.1.1 Single-Junction AlGaAs/GaAs Concentrator Solar Cells |
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138 | (3) |
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8.2 Multi-junction Solar Cells |
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141 | (2) |
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8.3 Lattice-Matched GaInP/Ga(In)As/Ge Triple-Junction Solar Cells |
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143 | (2) |
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8.4 Lattice-Mismatched (Metamorphic) Heterostructures for Multi-junction Solar Cells |
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145 | (2) |
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8.5 Multi-junction Solar Cells: Current Status of High-Efficiency Data |
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147 | (4) |
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8.6 Concentrator PV Modules and Installations with III--V Solar Cells |
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151 | (6) |
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8.6.1 Design of Fresnel Lens Sunlight Concentrators |
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154 | (3) |
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8.7 Module Efficiency Improvement |
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8.7.1 Compensation of Chromatic Aberration Negative Effect |
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157 | (7) |
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164 | (11) |
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165 | (10) |
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9 CIGS Thin Film Photovoltaic---Approaches and Challenges |
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175 | (44) |
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176 | (4) |
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9.1.2 Structure of a CIGS Solar Cell |
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177 | (3) |
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180 | (27) |
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180 | (9) |
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9.2.2 Back and Front Contact |
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189 | (3) |
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192 | (5) |
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9.2.4 Substrate-Related Issues |
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9.2.5 Series Interconnection of Cells |
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198 | (9) |
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207 | (12) |
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208 | (11) |
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10 Perovskite Photovoltaics: From Laboratory to Industry |
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219 | (38) |
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220 | (2) |
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10.2 Perovskite Properties |
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222 | (5) |
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10.2.2 The Role of the Metallic Cation |
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223 | (2) |
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10.2.3 The Role of the Halide Anion |
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225 | (1) |
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10.2.4 The Role of Monovalent Cations |
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226 | (1) |
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227 | (5) |
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10.3.1 Solution Processing |
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229 | (2) |
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10.4 Device Architectures |
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232 | (5) |
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233 | (1) |
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10.4.3 Tandem Solar Cells |
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235 | (2) |
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237 | (5) |
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10.5.1 Charge Generation and Transport |
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237 | (2) |
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239 | (1) |
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10.5.3 Device Measurement and Hysteresis |
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240 | (2) |
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242 | (4) |
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10.6.1 Commercialization Bottlenecks |
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242 | (2) |
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10.7 Advancements by Saule Technologies |
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246 | (11) |
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250 | (7) |
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11 Augsburger Tubular Photovoltaic (ATPV) |
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257 | (20) |
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258 | (1) |
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11.2 Shaped PV Versus Flat PV |
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259 | (8) |
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11.2.1 Advantages of the Cylindrical Tubular PV Design |
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259 | (2) |
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11.2.2 Comparison Between an Array Cylindrical Glass Tubes and a Pair of Flat Glass Plates (Without PV Cells) |
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261 | (2) |
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11.2.3 Cell Designs and Semiconductor Materials, Suitable to Serve Tubular PV |
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263 | (4) |
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11.3.1 Solyndra Power Tubes, the Forerunner of the Tubular PV |
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267 | (1) |
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11.4.1 ATPV Versus Solyndra Modules |
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269 | (3) |
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11.5 ATPV Rooftop Installation Versus Rooftop Installation with Flat PV Modules |
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272 | (1) |
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11.6 Agro-PV Under an ATPV Power Pergola |
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11.7 Other ATPV Applications |
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273 | (2) |
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12 Fluorescent Solar Energy Concentrators: Principle and Present State of Development |
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12.3 Light Guiding by Photonic Band Pass Mirrors |
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12.4 Factors Determining Energy Efficiency of Fluorescent Concentrators |
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12.5 Theoretical Limits of Concentration and Efficiency |
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12.5.1 Limit of Concentration |
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285 | (1) |
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12.5.2 Limit of Efficiency |
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12.6 Improvements in Basic Design |
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12.6.1 Optical Concentrators at the Collector Output |
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12.6.2 Combination of Fluorescent Collector with Large Area Si-Solar Cell |
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288 | (1) |
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12.6.3 Combination of Fluorescent Concentrator with Up-conversion |
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289 | (1) |
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12.6.4 Combination of Collector Stack with Band Pass Mirror |
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12.7 Experimental Results |
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12.7.1 Results of the Initial Period |
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12.7.2 Recent Experimental and Theoretical Work |
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Correction to: Perovskite Photovoltaics: From Laboratory to Industry |
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