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Innovation and Mass Production

Looking back over the past few years, manufacturers mostly made adjustments in wafer to cell, to improve the power output of modules. Mainstream mono and multi-Si wafers went from 156 mm to 156.75 mm, with module area unchanged. For cells, it is the optimization of each production process and the revolution of silver/aluminum paste.

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pv magazine

19 Jun 2018

Before 2014, cell efficiency improved around 0.2% every year. Once PERC became mainstream, this rose to 0.8-1%. As wafers, paste, and the optimization of cell technology have limited scope for the improvement of efficiency, module innovation has become a hot topic for global manufacturers in 2017. Bifacial modules Both p-type and n-type technology can produce …

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