Dyesol claims DSC strip cell lab efficiencies reach 8%

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Dye-sensitized solar thin-film specialist, Dyesol has claimed a 15% increase in the efficiency performance of large DSC strip cells has been achieved, bringing industrial DSC efficiency up from 6.9% to 8% in 2011. The increase in efficiency results were said to come from improvements in materials and structural design elements.

Dyesol noted in a presentation to German investors last week that its had a roadmap of known improvements that would take conversion efficiencies past 8.5% by April 2012.

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The company also noted that it expected to initiate the transfer of recent advances in glass-glass sealing technology in the first quarter of 2011 that is claimed to lead to improved durability of the product, an inherent weakness of flexible thin film products. 

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