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Making tandem cells stack up

Perovskite tandem technology is shaping as the route to PV cell efficiencies well beyond 27%. But building the tandem stack in a way that can be scaled into gigawatt production is not a trivial challenge, says Sebastian Gatz, VP photovoltaics for German equipment supplier Von Ardenne.

By

Jonathan Gifford

06 May 2022

Source: Von Ardenne

The latest International Technology Roadmap for Photovoltaic (ITRPV) report came out in April, and tandem and IBC [interdigitated back contact] cells were forecast to account for 5% of global production capacity by 2032. As a high-efficiency PV equipment supplier, what do you make of that figure? We consider this as a reasonable number. In China …

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