By Salvador Ponce-Alcántara & Guillermo Sánchez,, Valencia Nanophotonics Technology Center – UPV, Spain
Conventional ribbons used for interconnecting solar cells in PV modules act like mirrors, causing a large proportion of incident light to be lost. Experimental results indicate that only around 5% of the perpendicular
incident light on the connections can be reused; as a result, this area contributes very little, if at all, to the current generation.
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