Solar cell efficiency tables (version 49)

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 3-13

  Green, Martin A ^a   Emery, Keith ^b   Hishikawa, Yoshihiro ^c   Warta, Wilhelm ^d   Dunlop, Ewan D ^e   Levi, Dean H ^b   Ho Baillie, Anita W Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^e JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

energy conversion efficiency; photovoltaic efficiency; solar cell efficiency

Indexed keywords

CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; COPYRIGHTS; ENERGY CONVERSION; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

PHOTO-VOLTAIC EFFICIENCY; SOLAR CELL EFFICIENCIES;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 85003967095     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2855     Document Type: Article

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