Featured in The fertile solar crescent – 01-2018

Behind the curtain

Thin film technology: In this interview with pv magazine, First Solar Chief Technology Officer Raffi Garabedian sheds light on how his company is continuing to advance higher efficiencies as First Solar moves into Series 6 production.
By
Christian Roselund
Raffi Garabedian has been First Solar’s Chief Technology Officer since May 2012 and manages the company’s technology, photovoltaic module, and power plant system products and road maps.

pv magazine: The last time we talked, we discussed how acquiring General Electric’s IP enabled a boost in efficiencies for First Solar’s cadmium telluride (CdTe) technology. Has First Solar exhausted all of the gains here, or is this combination continuing to drive higher efficiencies?Raffi Garabedian: The last stage of the monetization of the IP we acquired …

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