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Anti-reflective coating the new normal

ARC glass: Incremental improvement in materials can have a major impact on overall module efficiencies and therefore cost per watt. Anti-reflective coating certainly fits that description and is fast becoming ubiquitous in PV glass manufacturing. Technological variations exist in terms of ARC material and application and the key metric, it seems, to this particular ARC lever is proving durability in a range of conditions.

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Jonathan Gifford

21 Jan 2015

Sometimes you pay a little more to get a lot. It’s a feeling familiar to any cinema-goer that upsizes from a standard popcorn or beverage only to stagger away from the counter with vast volumes of sugary beverage for only a few cents of extra spend. In some ways the growth of anti-reflective coating (ARC) …

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