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Commercial ‘kerfless’ is coming

The implementation of diamond wire wafer cutting dramatically reduced kerf – the crystalline material that is wasted when a solar ingot is sliced into wafers. Now epitaxy allows kerf losses to be kicked to the curb and Germany’s NexWafe is taking its epitaxial wafer production to commercial scale. Chief executive officer (CEO)Davor Sutija spoke with pv magazine shortly after the ground-breaking ceremony at its new facility in October.

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Jonathan Gifford

09 Nov 2023

Image: Nexwafe

pv magazine: In October, you started building a 250 MW production facility in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, eastern Germany. What does this milestone mean for your progress?Davor Sutija: The ground-breaking is for our first commercial facility. We were established as a spinout from Fraunhofer ISE in 2015, in Freiburg, Germany. On the site of TDK-Micronas [in Freiburg], which …

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