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Expansions in n-type

The past 12 months have been a turbulent time for PV manufacturing. Rapid and impressive developments in technology have been accompanied by price increases up and down the supply chain, and energy shortages weighed on production in the second half of the year. Chinese n-type module manufacturer Jolywood is now pressing ahead with ambitious expansion plans despite the disruption. pv magazine publisher Eckhart K. Gouras and editor Mark Hutchins recently caught up with Cathy Huang, European sales director at Jolywood, to discuss the company’s plans to bring n-type TOPCon technology into mainstream production.

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Eckhart Gouras, Mark Hutchins

12 Jan 2022

Cathy Huang, European sales director at Jolywood, is pictured with pv magazine publisher Eckhart K. Gouras at the Intersolar Europe exhibition in October 2020. | Image: pv magazine

How do you see the market for n-type technologies today? We see demand growing already. Today, PERC is still the mainstream technology in PV, but it is approaching its limits in terms of efficiency. In n-type, there is still a lot of room for improvement, and it is beginning to attract big attention. Thanks to …

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