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2. Cadmium telluride photovoltaics - Wikipedia

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   In August 2014 First Solar announced a device with 21.1% conversion efficiency. [42] In February 2016, First Solar announced that they had reached a record 22.1% conversion efficiency in their CdTe cells. In 2014, the record module efficiency was also raised by First Solar from 16.1% up to 17.0%. [43]

3. Solar panel - Wikipedia

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   A solar panel is a device ... the best achieved sunlight conversion rate (solar ... Temperature sensitivity is usually described by temperature coefficients, each of ...

4. Concentrator photovoltaics - Wikipedia

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   The solar cells require high-capacity heat sinks to prevent thermal destruction and to manage temperature related electrical performance and life expectancy losses. To further exacerbate the concentrated cooling design, the heat sink must be passive, otherwise the power required for active cooling will reduce the overall conversion efficiency ...

5. Solar-cell efficiency - Wikipedia

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   Usually solar panels are exposed to sunlight for longer than this in a given day, but the solar irradiance is less than 1000 W/m 2 for most of the day. A solar panel can produce more when the Sun is high in Earth's sky and produces less in cloudy conditions, or when the Sun is low in the sky. The Sun is lower in the sky in the winter.

6. Thermophotovoltaic energy conversion - Wikipedia

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   At this temperature, about half of all the energy reaching the surface is in the infrared. Based on this temperature, energy production is maximized when the bandgap is about 1.4 eV, in the near infrared. This just happens to be very close to the bandgap in doped silicon, at 1.1 eV, which makes solar PV inexpensive to produce. [3]

7. Photovoltaic system - Wikipedia

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   A photovoltaic system, also called a PV system or solar power system, is an electric power system designed to supply usable solar power by means of photovoltaics.It consists of an arrangement of several components, including solar panels to absorb and convert sunlight into electricity, a solar inverter to convert the output from direct to alternating current, as well as mounting, cabling, and ...