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A small groove scribed into the surface of a solar cell, which is filled with metal for contacts.
Industry:Energy
An arrangement of photovoltaic cells or material mounted on a rigid flat surface with the cells exposed freely to incoming sunlight.
Industry:Energy
A current carrier, either an electron or a hole, that is in the minority in a specific layer of a semiconductor material; the diffusion of minority carriers under the action of the cell junction voltage is the current in a photovoltaic device.
Industry:Energy
The deposition of thin films of semiconductor material by the evaporation of elemental sources in a vacuum.
Industry:Energy
The average time a minority carrier exists before recombination.
Industry:Energy
A PV array or module that consists of nonconcentrating elements. Flat-plate arrays and modules use direct and diffuse sunlight, but if the array is fixed in position, some portion of the direct sunlight is lost because of oblique sun-angles in relation to the array.
Industry:Energy
A waveform that has at least three states (i.e., positive, off, and negative). Has less harmonic content than a square wave.
Industry:Energy
