SCHOTT Solar AG has managed to reach an important milestone by combining several of its most recent development achievements. The company was able to use standard production processes to manufacture a high-efficiency solar cell that contains no silver, whose front side only requires … [Read more...]

By achieving an efficiency rate of 21%, Roth & Rau AG has reached a new milestone in the development of its high-efficiency technology. (picture: HELiAPVD) Solar cells based on heterojunction technology (HJT) are characterised in particular by their high output efficiency rates. … [Read more...]

Heliatek GmbH has once again set a new world record for organic solar cells after Fraunhofer ISE CalLab certified a cell efficiency of 9.8 % for a 1.1 cm² tandem cell manufactured with a low temperature deposition process. This new record makes the third time in a row that Heliatek has set a … [Read more...]

With "Quasimono", SCHOTT Solar has now developed a new technique for manufacturing full-square high-performance wafers that contain a high monocrystalline share that is significantly more cost-effective than the standard processes used in the past. The company has succeeded in using a … [Read more...]

DuPont announced it has developed a new backsheet technology designed to enhance the quality and manufacturability of crystalline silicon solar modules by improving adhesion to encapsulants, resistance to ultraviolet (UV) light and enabling faster throughput in the backsheet production … [Read more...]

듀폰(DuPont Photovoltaic Fluoromaterials)이 새로운 백시트 기술 개발을 발표했다. 이 기술은 밀봉재에 대한 부착력 및 자외선에 대한 저항력을 개선하고 백시트 생산 공정에서의 처리 속도를 높여 결정성 실리콘 태양광 모듈의 품질을 … [Read more...]

Manz AG is presenting a thin-film solar module with an aperture efficiency of 15.1 percent, something never before achieved. This level of efficiency refers to the photosensitive area of a module, and corresponds to a module efficiency of 14 percent. This value currently marks the world record … [Read more...]

Die Manz AG präsentiert ein Dünnschicht-Solarmodul mit dem bisher unerreichten Apertur-Wirkungsgrad von 15,1 Prozent. Der Wirkungsgrad bezieht sich auf die lichtempfindliche Fläche eines Moduls und entspricht einem Modulwirkungsgrad von 14 Prozent. Der Wert markiert momentan den Weltrekord … [Read more...]

2BG presents its last ongoing R&D technology that removes the use of silver paste by a new process using an absolutely new plating concept. The research project has started at the beginning of 2010 through the collaboration with Rise Technology Srl, Italian company founded by researchers of … [Read more...]

Canadian Solar (www.canadiansolar.com) announced the availability of its proprietary new ELPS solar cell technology. Canadian Solar's breakthrough ELPS (Efficient, Long-Term, Photovoltaic Solution) technology enables solar cells to collect more light resulting in up to 19.5 percent cell … [Read more...]