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Sherrill, David.
The Photoelectric Effect
. Georgia Tech, 2006. http://vergil.chemistry.gatech.edu/notes/quantrev/node4.html. Accessed 6/29/12. Brief explanation of the photoelectric effect.
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ScienCentral Inc and The American Institute of Physics. Conduction, PBS, 1999. http://www.pbs.org/transistor/science/info/conductors.html. Accessed 6/24/12. Explanation and examples of conductors, insulators, and semiconductors.
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Royal Society of Chemistry.
Visual Elements Periodic Table
. 2011. http://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/14/Silicon. Accessed 6/15/12. Facts about the element silicon.
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Khan, Aurangzeb.
Lecture 4: Crystal Growth
. University of South Alabama. http://www.southalabama.edu/engineering/ece/faculty/akhan/Courses/EE539-Fall04/Lecture-slides/lecture-4-crystal%20growth.pdf. Accessed 6/29/12. Detailed lecture notes about the Czochralski method.
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Lynn, Paul A.
Electricity from Sunlight
. West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, 2010. Book explaining photovoltaics from solar energy to future applications.
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Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
Energy Basics
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Photovoltaic Cell Conversion Efficiency.
U.S. Department of Energy, 2011. http://www.eere.energy.gov/basics/renewable_energy/pv_cell_conversion_efficiency.html. Accessed 5/25/12. Explains factors that affect cell performance.
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National Center for Photovoltaics. Best Research - Cell Efficiencies. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. http://www.nrel.gov/ncpv/images/efficiency_chart.jpg. Accessed 6/22/12. Graph detailing energy conversion efficiencies by technology and the research institutions who are working on that technology.
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Wright, Chuck. The Solar Sprint PV Panel. Chuck-Wright.com. http://www.chuck-wright.com/SolarSprintPV/SolarSprintPV.html. Accessed 4/29/12. Explains how the angle of incidence affects cell performance.
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Hittinger, E.
Power Consumption of Video Game Consoles Under Realistic Usage Patterns
http://wpweb2.tepper.cmu.edu/ceic/pdfs/CEIC_11_01.pdf. Carnegie Mellon University, 2011. Accessed 6/29/12. Paper comparing energy usage of various gaming consoles.