Conversion <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cell_efficiency" class="extiw" title="w:Solar cell efficiency">efficiencies</a> of best research <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/solar_cell" class="extiw" title="w:solar cell">solar cells</a> worldwide for various <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/photovoltaic" class="extiw" title="w:photovoltaic">photovoltaic</a> technologies since 1976.<br><span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%"><span style="border:1px solid #A040A0; background-color:#D18BD1; color:#D18BD1">▇</span>  <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-junction_cell" class="extiw" title="w:Multi-junction cell">Multi-junction cells</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrator_PV" class="extiw" title="w:Concentrator PV">Concentrator PV</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_panels_on_spacecraft" class="extiw" title="w:Solar panels on spacecraft">Solar panels on spacecraft</a>, Gallium Arsenide (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GaAs" class="extiw" title="w:GaAs">GaAs</a>) </span><br><span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%"><span style="border:1px solid #1A53FF; background-color:#809FFF; color:#809FFF">▇</span>  <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystalline_silicon" class="extiw" title="w:Crystalline silicon">Crystalline Si Cells</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocrystalline_silicon" class="extiw" title="w:Monocrystalline silicon">Single crystal</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycrystalline_silicon" class="extiw" title="w:Polycrystalline silicon">Multicrystalline</a> </span><br><span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%"><span style="border:1px solid #007c00; background-color:#63C700; color:#63C700">▇</span>  <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_film_solar_cell" class="extiw" title="w:Thin film solar cell">Thin-Film Technologies</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium_telluride_photovoltaics" class="extiw" title="w:Cadmium telluride photovoltaics">CdTe</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper_indium_gallium_selenide_solar_cells" class="extiw" title="w:Copper indium gallium selenide solar cells">CIGS</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous_silicon" class="extiw" title="w:Amorphous silicon">Amorphous Si</a> </span><br><span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%"><span style="border:1px solid #B6402B; background-color:#DC7B6A; color:#DC7B6A">▇</span>  <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin_film_solar_cell#Emerging_photovoltaics" class="extiw" title="w:Thin film solar cell">Emerging PV</a></b>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dye-sensitized_solar_cell" class="extiw" title="w:Dye-sensitized solar cell">Dye-sensitized solar cells</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perovskite_solar_cell" class="extiw" title="w:Perovskite solar cell">Perovskite solar cells</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_solar_cell" class="extiw" title="w:Organic solar cell">Organic solar cells</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CZTS" class="extiw" title="w:CZTS">CZTSSe</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_dot_solar_cell" class="extiw" title="w:Quantum dot solar cell">Quantum dot solar cells</a> </span>
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<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Renewable_Energy_Laboratory" class="extiw" title="w:National Renewable Energy Laboratory">National Renewable Energy Laboratory</a> (NREL), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden,_Colorado" class="extiw" title="en:Golden, Colorado">Golden, CO</a> − <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Energy" class="extiw" title="w:United States Department of Energy">United States Department of Energy</a>
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