Featured in #EpicFail – 07-2015

A big thin boost

Thin film: While thin film technologies have been slowly losing market share to crystalline silicon technology in recent years, impressive efficiency improvements have the potential to turn this trend around. Add to that the power boost CIGS and CdTe modules exhibit, on a kWh/kWp basis, and manufacturers claim the technology is a compelling offering.

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Jonathan Gifford

01 Jul 2015

An 18.2% module efficiency is nothing to sneeze at. For a thin film module, it is truly outstanding. Last month U.S. thin film giant First Solar proudly announced that it had produced a cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin film module with a total efficiency of 18.2%. It exhibited an aperture efficiency of 18.6%.Not only is this …

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