1. Why don’t the short circuit and open circuit voltage produce power in a p-n cell? 2....

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1. Why don’t the short circuit and open circuit voltage producepower in a p-n cell?

2. The power supplied by a solar cell is proportional to itssurface area. Using the flux of solar energy under AM1 conditions,estimate the power a 1-cm2 solar cell will yield. Stateexplicitly any assumption you make.

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1 Remember that the power efficiency of the solar cell is the output power Pmax over the input power Psolar It can also be expressed in terms of the fill factor the power efficiency of the solar cell is equal to the product of the fill factor times the short circuit current Jsctimes the open circuit voltage Voc over the input power Psolar    See Answer
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