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The problems of environmental and energy crisis in the world are serious and pressing, which cause many countries to spend billions of dollars on research to produce clean energy. Among these novel energies, solar energy is a kind of clean energy and a solution to the energy crisis. The International Energy Agency said that “the development of affordable, inexhaustible and clean solar energy technologies will have huge long-term benefits. It will increase countries’ energy security reliance on an indigenous, inexhaustible and mostly import-independent resource” [1]. Many nations have put forward proposals to use solar energy. For example, the so-called Solar Roofs Plan in the USA and Germany began in 1996. Japan especially paid attention to the real applications of solar energy. “New Sunshine Project” started in 1993, and the incentive program “Residential PV System Dissemination Program” began in 1994 [2]. China has also taken effective measures to promote the development of solar cell.

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Zhou, W. (2013). Application of NIL in Solar Cell. In: Nanoimprint Lithography: An Enabling Process for Nanofabrication. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34428-2_10

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