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The development of photovoltaic solar energy conversion is considered. A review of the obtaining methods and the photoelectric parameters of the photocells based on different semiconductor materials: silicon, III-V compounds, copper indium deselenide (CIS), cadmium telluride, ternary semiconductor compounds is presented. Future tasks for efficiency increasing and cost reducing of the electrical energy generated by different photocells are discussed.
The results of elaboration and investigation of solar cells based on II-VI semiconductor thin films, semiconductor-insulator-semiconductor structures and tandem solar cells carried out in the Moldavian State University are presented.
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Simashkevich, A.V., Gaugash, P.V. (1997). New Materials For Solar Energy Conversion. In: Andriesh, A., Bertolotti, M. (eds) Physics and Applications of Non-Crystalline Semiconductors in Optoelectronics. NATO ASI Series, vol 36. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5496-3_29
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