Featured in Work in progress – 04-2023

The ‘n’ kid on the block

Passivated-emitter, rear contact (PERC) solar and the plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) production method are clinging on as mainstream options, but their anticipated demise is moving ever closer, explains InfoLink’s Derek Zhao.

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pv magazine

05 Apr 2023

Negatively doped, “n-type” solar cells made their bow last year. InfoLink estimates that the annual solar production capacity for tunnel-oxide passivated contact (TOPCon) and heterojunction (HJT) products reached 81 GW and 13 GW, respectively.Solar manufacturers shipped 16 GW of TOPCon and 3 GW of HJT modules. With around 1 GW of various back-contact (xBC) cells, …

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