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conference paper
Photovoltaic cells for sustainable energy
2008
Sustainable Energy Technologies: Options And Prospects
Incident solar radiation is the most fundamental of the sustainable energy sources, being at the origin of all others - wind and wave, biomass and even fossil fuels which represent stored solar energy over a geological time scale. Only nuclear and geothermal sources are non-solar. The direct conversion of incident solar radiation into the most convenient energy vector, electricity, motivates the development of lower cost, higher efficiency and larger area photovoltaic devices and systems. Their history, technology and applications are here reviewed.
Type
conference paper
Web of Science ID
WOS:000253371600005
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Publication date
2008
Published in
Sustainable Energy Technologies: Options And Prospects
Start page
99
End page
119
Peer reviewed
NON-REVIEWED
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Event name | Event place | Event date |
Dubrovnik, CROATIA | Sep 23-25, 2006 | |
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November 30, 2010
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