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Moving away from film

Changing modules: Solar modules and polycrystalline silicon cells encapsulated with EVA go together almost like bread and butter. But alternative approaches are materializing, and the conventional module landscape now finds itself in a state of technological change.

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pv magazine

02 Aug 2011

Ingrid Hädrich is intent on overthrowing the established order in solar modules. In cooperation with project partners, the head of the “Module efficiency and new concepts” team at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems is developing an edge-sealed solar module with a structure far simpler than that of today’s modules. “Our partners have designed …

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