Engineering · Energy & Power Engineering
A topic within Energy & Power Engineering, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Engineering.
2 works
United States Department of Energy
Sets a target of unsubsidised grid-competitive solar power and works backward to the specific cost reductions needed in modules, inverters and installation to get there.
William Shockley & Hans J. Queisser
Derives a maximum theoretical efficiency for a single-junction solar cell from the balance between absorbed sunlight and re-radiated thermal photons, giving every solar cell technology since a hard ceiling to be measured against.
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