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Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Principles of Sustainable Energy Systems, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Frank Kreith, Susan Krumdieck
August 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
790 pages
30h 5m
English
CRC Press
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substrate to avoid shading from the sun. Cooling of such a device is important because the
efciency decreases at about 0.06% per °C increase in operating temperature.
Improvements in multilayer photovoltaic cells are continuing, and in April 2008, the
NREL announced that a world record in solar cell efciency of 40.8% had been achieved
at a concentration ratio of 326 suns with an inverted, metaphoric, triple-junction solar cell.
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ISBN: 9781466556966