Prospects of Nanostructure-Based Solar Cells for Manufacturing Future Generations of Photovoltaic Modules

Table 1

Various solar energy losses in single junction silicon (1.1 eV energy band gap) solar cell under AM 1.5 solar spectra at 300^∘K temperature [13].

Photo-electro energy conversion	32.9%
Unabsorbed energy losses	18.7%
Heat loss	46.8%
Other losses	1.6%