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Development of Solar Cells
Mohan Kumar Anand Raj, Rajasekar Rathanasamy* and Moganapriya Chinnasamy
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Erode, Tamil Nadu, India
Abstract
Nowadays, it is necessary to switch over from traditional fossil fuel power generation to alternative source power generation due to environmental degradation. Solar cell is a device