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Gallium in the fight against LID

From the acquisition of IP to commercialization, the PV industry has witnessed a rapid rise of gallium-doped silicon. Researchers are testing the resulting cells’ stability while industry has begun the manufacturing phase. All this leads to a key question: Will gallium doped silicon solar modules will be the next big thing?

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pv magazine

25 May 2020

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The Holy Grail of PV is to improve efficiency while simultaneously reducing costs. This has resulted in continued pressure on the PV community to drive down costs in cell and module manufacturing. The way to achieve this goal is to pursue increasing PV conversion efficiencies and by decreasing the annual degradation rates of solar modules. …

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