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Or, just use gallium instead of boron as the dopant so it doesn't suffer from light-induced degradation.
The process takes less than five minutes and can help treated solar panels recover up to 5 per cent of their lost field performance.

5% of 10% loss. Unless it's bad reporting, and it means regain 5 of the lost 10 percentage points. If it's the literal meaning, it's a tiny incremental improvement.