Solar energy conversion: List of efficiencies and some theoretical considerations. Part I - theoretical considerations

Progress in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 211-230

  Landsberg, P T ^a   Badescu, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POWER GENERATION;

SOLAR ENERGY CONVERSION; THERMODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 0032291213     PISSN: 00796727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6727(98)00012-3     Document Type: Review

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