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  2. Solar-cell efficiency - Wikipedia

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    This efficiency limit of ~34% can be exceeded by multijunction solar cells. If one has a source of heat at temperature T s and cooler heat sink at temperature T c, the maximum theoretically possible value for the ratio of work (or electric power) obtained to heat supplied is 1-T c /T s, given by a Carnot heat engine. If we take 6000 K for the ...

  3. Shockley–Queisser limit - Wikipedia

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    where u, v, and m are respectively the ultimate efficiency factor, the ratio of open-circuit voltage V op to band-gap voltage V g, and the impedance matching factor (all discussed above), and V c is the thermal voltage, and V s is the voltage equivalent of the temperature of the Sun. Letting t s be 1, and using the values mentioned above of 44% ...

  4. Thermodynamic efficiency limit - Wikipedia

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    Thermodynamic efficiency limit is the absolute maximum theoretically possible conversion efficiency of sunlight to electricity. Its value is about 86%, which is the Chambadal-Novikov efficiency , an approximation related to the Carnot limit , based on the temperature of the photons emitted by the Sun's surface.

  5. Multi-junction solar cell - Wikipedia

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    The theoretical efficiency of MJ solar cells is 86.8% for an infinite number of pn junctions, [14] implying that more junctions increase efficiency. The maximum theoretical efficiency is 37, 50, 56, 72% for 1, 2, 3, 36 additional pn junctions, respectively, with the number of junctions increasing exponentially to achieve equal efficiency ...

  6. Theory of solar cells - Wikipedia

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    For most crystalline silicon solar cells the change in V OC with temperature is about −0.50%/°C, though the rate for the highest-efficiency crystalline silicon cells is around −0.35%/°C. By way of comparison, the rate for amorphous silicon solar cells is −0.20 to −0.30%/°C, depending on how the cell is made.

  7. Thermophotovoltaic energy conversion - Wikipedia

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    The upper limit for efficiency in TPVs (and all systems that convert heat energy to work) is the Carnot efficiency, that of an ideal heat engine. This efficiency is given by: = where T cell is the temperature of the PV converter.

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