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 With an efficiency of 25 per cent, the tandem solar module is the most efficient silicon perovskite module in the world on an industrial scale.
PV technology research

Developing a tandem solar module with over 25 per cent efficiency

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Photovoltaic modules based on perovskite silicon tandem solar cells have the potential to achieve higher efficiencies than today's silicon modules. A research team at Fraunhofer ISE has now produced a module with an efficiency of 25 per cent using perovskite silicon tandem solar cells from Oxford PV.

 Lumet-metallized silicon solar cells.
Manufacturing

Qcells deploys fine-line metallization technology for its solar cell lines

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Qcells will become the world’s first PV solar company to deploy Lumet’s disruptive fine-line metallization technology for its PV solar cell lines.

Perovskites

Video: 2024 perovskite breakthroughs are the future of solar

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For his YouTube channel Undecided with Matt Ferrell, the renewables youtuber goes for a deep dive of the latest and upcoming developments in perovskites and tandem solar cells:

The costs of silicon PV modules will more than half by 2040, Rethink Energy predicts.
New report Rethink Energy

The cost and efficiency screw for PV modules continues to turn

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Rethink Energy has published a new report analyzing the cost breakdown of silicon solar modules through to 2040, with particular detail given to usage rates pf polysilicon, high-purity quartz, and silver paste, as well as technological improvements in the Czochralski Process and wafer production.

The Las Vaguadas solar farm in Spain.
Iberian Peninsular

RWE commissions 10-megawatt solar farm in Spain

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RWE has installed 20,000 bifacial solar modules in the Spanish province of Badajoz, totalling 250 megawatts of solar capacity in operation or under construction in Spain.

Solar cell development

First of a new type of solar cells roll off Trina’s production line

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On 1 August 2023, Trina Solar has manufactured the first 210mm n-type i-TOPCon cells at its net-zero production park in Qinghai province. Production there is to be ramped up to five gigawatts.

View of the Oxford PV factory in Brandenburg, Germany.
Oxford PV

A solar cell that achieves 28.6 per cent yield

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The efficiency was confirmed by Fraunhofer ISE. The cell was manufactured at the factory in Brandenburg an der Havel, eastern Germany. There, Oxford PV is researching new types of perovskite stack cells.

Faut detection

Detect everything from insulation faults to broken solar cells

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With the LSI fault location set from Solartektor, the solar installer can exactly determine a possible fault in a solar array.

Thanks to improved antireflection layers, the efficiency of the best four-junction solar cell to date improved from 46.1 to 47.6 per cent.
Fraunhofer ISE:

The World's Most Efficient Solar Cell to date

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Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, using a new antireflection coating, have successfully increased the efficiency of the best four-junction solar cell to date from 46.1 to 47.6 per cent.

In the Hysprint lab at HZB, the team developed a perovskite technology which can now be combined with mass produced silicon solar cells by Q Cells to make highly efficient tandem cells.
Q Cells/HZB:

Record efficiency of 28.7% for perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell

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Q Cells has set a new world-record tandem cell efficiency of 28.7% in collaboration with researchers at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin using a Q.antum-based silicon bottom cell in combination with a perovskite-based top cell.

The researchers have achieved the higher efficiency with two improvements: with a nanostructure on the front (left) and a reflector on the back (right).
Perovskite:

HZB achieves 30 per cent efficiency with perovskite-silicon tandem

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Researchers in Berlin have achieved an efficiency of 29.8 per cent with a tandem cell made of silicon and perovskite. Among other things, they have improved the boundary layers between the semiconductors.

The Q Cells R&D Centre in Thalheim, Germany.
Manufacturing:

Q Cells: Licence agreement with German PV module manufacturer

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Q Cells reached an agreement to license use of its patent-protected cell passivation technology with a German solar module manufacturer.

A new thin-film solar cell. developed by Fraunhofer ISE, reached a record efficiency of almost 69 percent.
Fraunhofer ISE:

68.9 percent solar cell efficiency under laser light

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Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE were able to achieve a record conversion efficiency of 68.9% with a thin film photovoltaic cell under monochromatic laser light.

Solar cells of Longi. The Chinese manufacturer annnouned a new efficiency solar cell recorcd.
Solar cells:

Longi: Record of 25.09% for n-type TopCon cell efficiency

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Testing at the Institute for Solar Energy Research (ISFH) in Hamelin, Germany, has confirmed that the conversion efficiency of N-type monocrystalline bifacial TopCon cells developed at Longi’s cell R&D center has reached 25.09%.

The rainbow colors show the diffraction of sunlight by a mirror with a nanostructured grating, which was applied to the back of the silicon subcell. The sun’s spectrum is thus captured even better in the silicon bottom cell.
Tandem photovoltaics:

35.9 percent record efficiency for silicon solar cell

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Fraunhofer ISE developed a new monolithic triple-junction solar cell – or more specifically, a III-V//Si tandem solar cell – that converts 35.9 % of sunlight into electrical energy.

The record-breaking mono-crystalline silicon solar cell was fabricated on a high quality, low defect CZ mono-Si substrate.
Efficiency record:

Jinko mono cell verified at record-breaking efficiency

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Recently, JinkoSolar has achieved a record large-area N-type monocrystalline silicon solar cell conversion efficiency of 24.9 per cent, independently confirmed by the Institute for Solar Energy Research in Hamelin (ISFH), Germany.

Several III-V tandem solar cells on a silicon substrate with 10 cm diameter.

New record efficiency for tandem solar cell

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Fraunhofer ISE is reporting a new record efficiency of 25.9 percent for a III-V/Si tandem solar cell grown directly on silicon.