Physics of solar cells : from basic principles to advanced concepts

By P. Würfel, U. Würfel. 2009

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Design, fabrication and characterisation of a 24.4% efficient interdigitated back contact solar cell (2016, background): “In particular, the entropy losses are not included in the loss breakdown, which will necessarily be larger at lower voltages and consequently lower Fermi-level splitting [55,56].”
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Organic Solar Cells—The Path to Commercial Success (2020, background): “As these transitions are directly related to the inverse process of absorption, the presence of radiative voltage losses is unavoidable.[35] It can be reduced in OSCs, though, by decreasing the absorption strength of the CTS.”