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How is solar power lost?

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Anonymous

10y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

our band gap determines the strength (voltage) of our electric field, and if it's too low, then what we make up in extra current (by absorbing more photons), we lose by having a small voltage. Remember that power is voltage times current. The optimal band gap, balancing these two effects, is around 1.4 eV for a cell made from a single material.

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10y ago

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