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Solar cell with 42.8% efficiency.(ENERGY/POWER PRODUCTION)
Advanced Ceramics Report, September, 2007
By using a novel technology that adds multiple innovations to a high-performance crystalline silicon solar cell platform, a consortium led by the University of Delaware (UD), USA, has achieved a record-breaking combined solar cell efficiency of 42.8% from sunlight at standard terrestrial conditions.
According to the researchers, this is a significant advance from the current record of 40.7% announced in December 2006, and demonstrates an important milestone on the path to the 50% efficiency goal set by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
Combined with the demonstrated efficiency performance of the highly efficient solar cells' spectral splitting optics, which is more than 93%, these recent results put the pieces in place for a...
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