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Optimal Light Extraction is Key to Solar-Cell Efficiency
Managing the photons within a gallium arsenide solar cell to maximize its external fluorescence was the key step to realizing its record efficiency.
Eli Yablonovitch (left) and Owen Miller. The monitor in the picture illustrates the new physics concept wherein increased light emission yields higher efficiency.
Managing the photons within a gallium arsenide solar cell to maximize its external fluorescence was the key step to realizing its record efficiency. Eli Yablonovitch and graduate student Owen Miller from the University of California at Berkeley (U.S.A.) presented their findings at CLEO:2012.
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