Subject: Re: PV response curves

From: [email-masked] (Michael Totten)
Date: 7 Dec 1994 01:14:18 -0000

Ken Zweibel's outstanding book, Harnessing Solar Power, The Photovoltaics 
Challenge (Plenum Press, NY, 1990) provides a section on your question.  
Sorry I don't have it at hand.

Michael Totten
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On Mon, 5 Dec 1994, Chris Schroeder wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone could explain why the response curves for solar
> cells are limited on the end of higher energy.  I know that the lower bound
> is related to the energy gap of the semiconductor, but I can't find a
> corresponding explaination for the higher bound.  Any comments would be
> appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris Schroeder
> [email-masked]
> PV response curves
>