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Three Dimensional Solar Cells Based on Optical Confinement Geometries

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As our universe continues to evolve, entropy will continue to increase. In this process, however, some acceptor systems, through absorbing power, can evolve toward a high-ordered level, at the expense of enhancing another donor-system’s entropy. Fortunately, the earth is an acceptor-system getting the energy from the Sun, a donor system. The sun is exporting energy in the form of light, such that materials on earth can evolve into higher levels: from inorganic compounds to organic macromolecular compounds, then to protein, the basic unit of all living beings, ultimately benefiting human and human society. In the 0.6 billion years’ evolution, solar energy has played a very important role as a driving force, and has generated most of the world’s food supply, and generated countless tons of coal, oil and gas which has been heavily over-utilized by modern technologies. Without the sun, the earth would be a frozen, silent planet with nothing but inorganic components.

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Li, Y. (2013). Introduction. In: Three Dimensional Solar Cells Based on Optical Confinement Geometries. Springer Theses. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5699-5_1

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