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📅 NSB 2013🎓 HS🔄 Round 13#️⃣ Q20🌟 BONUS📝 Multiple Choice

Traditional solar cells have a maximum conversion efficiency of about 34% because many of the captured wavelengths result in the creation of heat, not electrons. Newly published research has shown that cell efficiencies can reach up to 44% by doing which of the following?

W) Making them thinner
X) Capturing the blue wavelength
Y) Using gallium arsenide instead of silicon
Z) Using selenium in one of the layers
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