Cell Processing

Reducing silver consumption remains one of the key trends in the solar industry, such as going busbar-less, highlights the ITRPV.

Under this new domestic content requirement, solar PV cells based on crystalline-silicon technology would be considered to be domestically manufactured only if they used undiffused silicon wafers.

Europe’s solar manufacturing sector heavily favours downstream products such as cells and modules, according to SolarPower Europe.

PV Talk: University of New South Wales professor Xiaojing Hao discusses her hopes for the potential of kesterite, an emerging alternative PV technology.

The deal follows the start of production at ES Foundry’s 3GW nameplate capacity manufacturing plant in January.

A high breakage rate in thin PV module glass is a vulnerability that is not yet widely understood due to inadequate testing regimes, according to the IEA PVPS.

Wenzhong Shen, Sheng Ma and Huanpei Huang present an overview of the ultraviolet-induced degradation affecting TOPCon cells and modules.

Risen said the cell was certified by the Chinese National Photovoltaic Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Center.

The PV industry has been playing a game of 'whack a mole' in tackling module defects over the past decade, according to Kiwa Pi Berlin.

Talon PV and SEG Solar have signed a deal that will see the former provide US-made n-type cells for the latter’s modules.