Featured in Green leap forward – 02-2012

Engineering the future

PV thin glass: Corning Photovoltaics has recently developed a range of engineered glass substrates, specifically designed to replace one of a typical PV module’s glass layers, which it claims can improve conversion efficiency, while also being lightweight and maintaining product strength and reliability.

But to what extent can the additional costs of engineered glass be justified in thin film applications? And what are the market prospects for products of this type? As Anis Fadul, Director of Marketing and Strategy at Corning Photovoltaics explains, the company’s ‘family’ of engineered PV glasses is tailored to address the needs of thin …

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