Featured in Burning ambition – 09-2012

Paving the way to acceptance

Quasi-mono standards: The SEMI standards for quasi-monocrystalline silicon wafers can create a clear pathway for market acceptance of the technology and facilitate growth. The SEMI PV Group’s Stephan Raithel and LDK Solar’s Yuepeng Wan and Linyan Liu explore the potential of the technology and why standards could be valuable.

When perusing the different show floors at any major PV trade show, it becomes quickly apparent that nearly every leading PV manufacturer has quasi-mono (also known as mono-like) products on the market. The overall goal is simple: to be able to reach the same efficiency as monosilicon (mono-Si) cells at the cost level of a …

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