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2. Semiconductor principle
2.1 Photovoltaic effect
Solar cells convert light directly into electricity using certain properties of semiconductor materials.
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Photon processing
When a cell is illuminated by a stream of photons, depending on their energy, the photons are either :
(material reflection coefficient) ;
absorbed (absorption coefficient) ;
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