gijs van elzakker Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:47:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Delft Researcher Modifies Amorphous Silicon Solar Cells' Production Line to Raise Efficiency https://www.greenoptimistic.com/amorphous-silicon-solar-cells-hydrogen-efficiency-20100706/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/amorphous-silicon-solar-cells-hydrogen-efficiency-20100706/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:47:08 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=8358 Amorphous silicon solar cells lose their efficiency during the first hours of sunlight exposure, because of the phenomenon called the Staebler-Wronski effect, which has not yet been fully explained by science. After several hours of sunlight, these types of solar cells lose about a third of their efficiency, from 10 to 7 percent.

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