In recent months, the rapidly shrinking price gap between monocrystalline and multicrystalline solar modules has created widespread expectation in the PV industry that monocrystalline technology will ...

While the focus of much of the PV manufacturing community in recent years has been on achieving cost reductions, it appears that a major push towards efficiency improvements is underway. UNSW s Martin ...

MERRIMACK, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GT Solar International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR), a global provider of polysilicon production technology, and sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials ...

The old saw that “the devil is in the details” characterizes the kind of needling obstacles that prevent an innovative concept from becoming a working technology. It also often describes the type of ...

Mitsubishi Electric announced it has achieved a record photoelectric conversion efficiency rate of 18.6% in a 150-mm-sq. practical-use solar cell, an improvement of 0.6% over the company’s previous ...

Norway-headquartered integrated PV module manufacturer REC Group announced that it has started commercial production on what it claims is the highest power 72-cell multicrystalline solar panel in the ...

Although solar cells based on monocrystalline silicon deliver better performance than multicrystalline silicon, industry players believe that the latter should rise as the mainstream material for ...

Developed and produced at its State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology of China, Trina Solar said that the record total-area efficiency of 21.25% on standard 156×156mm substrates was achieved ...

Now researchers at Fraunhofer ISE have produced a multicrystalline silicon solar cell with 21.9 percent efficiency, successfully bringing the world record back to Freiburg. Higher efficiencies and ...

GT Solar International, a global provider of polysilicon production technology, sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems, and materials for the solar, LED and other specialty markets, has ...