GATE EC 2020 Set 1 — Question 44

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A pnpn junction solar cell of area 1.0 cm21.0\text{ cm}^2, illuminated uniformly with 100 mW cm2100\text{ mW cm}^{-2}, has the following parameters: Efficiency =15%= 15\%, open circuit voltage =0.7 V= 0.7\text{ V}, fill factor =0.8= 0.8, and thickness =200 μm= 200\text{ }\mu\text{m}. The charge of an electron is 1.6×1019 C1.6 \times 10^{-19}\text{ C}. The average optical generation rate (in cm3s1\text{cm}^{-3}\text{s}^{-1}) is
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