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Where is the innovation?

Thin film PV equipment: The CIGS PV segment has changed drastically with very few players left standing. While the equipment segment continues to work on processes that can lead to improvements in CIGS PV panel efficiencies, whether or not there is the appetite for innovation in the industry right now is another matter.

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pv magazine

28 Nov 2013

Even as the outlook for the c-Si PV market begins to improve, for equipment suppliers in the CIGS PV industry, the market continues to be very risk averse, though it provides the best opportunity of all the thin film technologies. Amorphous silicon’s efficiencies have been overtaken by CIGS and, unlike CdTe/First Solar, there are several …

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