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by regularfry 4644 days ago
It's a concentrator cell, so it's designed to be used with reflectors or lenses to increase the sunlight capture area.

A rough rule of thumb is that you get 1kW/m^2 of raw sunlight, so to get reasonable powers (in the MW+ range) out of a solar installation without needing an enormous solar cell budget, you need cheap concentrators of some sort.