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Crystalline Silicon P-N Junction Solar Cells — Efficiency Limits And Low-Cost Fabrication Technology

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Photovoltaic and Photoactive Materials — Properties, Technology and Applications

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Economic growth depends on energy use. Worldwide, energy accounts for 25 to 30% of the present investments in development and economic growth. The highest future energy needs are envisaged for developing countries, where 90% of world’s population growth will take place. In poorer economies, an average person annually uses only 2.5 to 10 percent of the commercial fuels used in Europe, Japan or the USA [1,2], and around 2 billion people are still not connected to an electric grid [3], As the Third World countries become increasingly industrialised, the growth in energy demand is increasing rapidly.

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Szlufcik, J. (2002). Crystalline Silicon P-N Junction Solar Cells — Efficiency Limits And Low-Cost Fabrication Technology. In: Marshall, J.M., Dimova-Malinovska, D. (eds) Photovoltaic and Photoactive Materials — Properties, Technology and Applications. NATO Science Series, vol 80. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0632-3_6

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