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EPJ Photovolt.
Volume 16, 2025
Special Issue on ‘EU PVSEC 2025: State of the Art and Developments in Photovoltaics', edited by Robert Kenny and Carlos del Cañizo
Article Number 32
Number of page(s) 16
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/epjpv/2025021
Published online 10 December 2025
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