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Fig. 1: The most frequently quoted Shockley–Queisser efficiency curves shown alongside the best measured solar cell efficiencies (points).

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The Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics is supported by the Czech Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport under grant number CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/15_003/0000464.

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Markvart, T. Ideal solar cell efficiencies. Nat. Photonics 15, 163–164 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-021-00772-4

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