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The crystalline silicon solar cell and module dominate the terrestrial solar market today. While the silicon cell had been used in space since 1958, it was not brought down to earth for terrestrial applications until 1975 when Bill Yerkes left Spectrolab and formed Solar Technology International (STI) .
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Fraas, L.M. (2014). Terrestrial Silicon Solar Cells Today. In: Low-Cost Solar Electric Power. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07530-3_5
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