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Silicon-based photovoltaics: State of the art and main lines of development

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Lines of scientific and technical research works carried out in the field of silicon solar cells and aimed at reducing the cost of photovoltaic power, which is the fundamental problem of photovoltaics, are considered. Main results obtained by specialists of the Moscow State University’s Research Institute of Nuclear Physics and the Solnechnyi Veter (Solar Wind) Firm are presented.

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  1. Skobel’tsyn Research Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia

    G. G. Untila

  2. Solnechnyi Veter (Solar Wind) Firm, ul. Tamanskaya 180, Krasnodar, 350040, Russia

    M. B. Zaks

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Original Russian Text © G.G. Untila, M.B. Zaks, 2011, published in Teploenergetika.

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Untila, G.G., Zaks, M.B. Silicon-based photovoltaics: State of the art and main lines of development. Therm. Eng. 58, 932–947 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0040601511110139

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