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The Chip Shots blog channels the observations of Fabtech's and PV-Tech/Photovoltaic International's Senior Contributing Editor--USA, Tom Cheyney, a 20-year veteran of semiconductor, advanced micro/nanoelectronics, and solar manufacturing trade journalism. For 15 years, Tom was editor in chief of MICRO (the original home of Chip Shots) until it ceased publication in July 2006. Tom calls Los Angeles home. First Solar analyst day post-mortem, Part II: Efficiencies will hit 12.5% by 2012, then surpass 16%
One of the key tenets in First Solar’s cost-cutting and continuous improvement mantras is the ever-increasing conversion efficiency of its cadmium telluride thin-film panels. "A tremendous amount of our ability to drive down cost has to do with improving the efficiency, one of the fundamental metrics that drives our technology," said company president Bruce Sohn during last week’s analysts meet. Given how progress has gone so far, 11% CdTe module efficiency should be right around the corner, with management exuding confidence that the magic number will pop to 12.5% within a few years. Beyond that, First says it will surpass the NREL "hero cell" efficiency of 16.5% with its production modules. But how?
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