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Mono silicon on the rise

Silicon wafer: Fortunes have changed in the wafer market. While a year ago multicrystalline wafers were in short supply, today it is monocrystalline that is in demand. pv magazine brings you a look at the momentum and challenges behind the growth of monocrystalline silicon technology.

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Christian Roselund

15 Mar 2017

PV wafer production | Image: pv magazine

For the past year, monocrystalline silicon wafers, cells and modules have been a hot commodity. While German Engineering Federation VDMA’s International Technology Roadmap for photovoltaics (ITRPV) estimates that mono products only made up around 37% of the global solar wafer market in 2016, they have been increasing in popularity.This is particularly true in the massive …

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