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   On 30/04/2013 05:36, RichD wrote:   
   > I recently attendesd a seminar on photovoltaic research.  The   
   > speaker showed a graph, how the power efficiency drops as   
   > the recombination time of the minority carriers decreases.   
   > Can anyone expound on this?   
      
   If the electron recombines before it reaches the external connection   
   that the energy that it had is just thermalised as heat.   
   >   
   > And, the quantum efficiency drops, as well.  What does   
   > that mean?   
   >   
   > --   
   > Rich   
      
   I was a bit surprised to see how much they suffer when hot. eg   
      
   http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/59937/676836192.pdf?...1   
      
      
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   Martin Brown   
      
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