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A semi-metallic chemical element that makes an excellent semiconductor material for photovoltaic devices. It crystallizes in face-centered cubic lattice like a diamond. It's commonly found in sand and quartz (as the oxide).
Industry:Energy
The ratio of array area to actual land area or building envelope area for a system; or, the ratio of total solar cell area to the total module area, for a module.
Industry:Energy
A waveform corresponding to a single-frequency periodic oscillation that can be mathematically represented as a function of amplitude versus angle in which the value of the curve at any point is equal to the sine of that angle.
Industry:Energy
A way of joining solar cells or photovoltaic modules by connecting positive leads together and negative leads together; such a configuration increases the current, but not the voltage.
Industry:Energy
A polycrystalline thin-film photovoltaic material (sometimes incorporating gallium (CIGS) and/or sulfur).
Industry:Energy
A thin sheet of semiconductor (photovoltaic material) made by cutting it from a single crystal or ingot.
Industry:Energy
A chemical reaction that eliminates the detrimental effect of electrically reactive atoms on a solar cell's surface.
Industry:Energy
