Fill Factor

Fill factor may refer to:

  • Fill factor (solar cell), the ratio of maximum obtainable power to the product of the open-circuit voltage and short-circuit current
  • In vision science, the ratio of view areas to the object visible areas.
  • For optical microlens arrays, the ratio of the active refracting area to the total contiguous area occupied by the lens array.

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