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New Technique Identifies Manufacturing Residue, Improves Solar Cell Efficiency

Mila Luleva — Tue, 07 May 2013 19:16:06 +0000

Scientists from Argonne National Laboratory discovered that the efficiency of solar cells is reduced by traces of residue from the manufacturing process of organic photovoltaics. Solar cells based on organic polymers, or the so-called organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs), are known to be much cheaper to make than the popular silicon solar cells. They can be applied […]

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New Manufacturing Technology Promises to Improve CIGS Solar Cells' Efficiency

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:13:40 +0000

When it comes to power, everybody thinks about money and how we should make power-generating devices like solar cells become more efficient (read: more stuff for the same money and size). Thin film solar cells are yet another competitor to classic ones, and attract customers through the fact that they're thin, flexible and cheap. And they're also pretty inefficient (20% at most).

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Efficiency Record for Silicon Ink Solar Cells Broken by Innovalight

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 12:32:19 +0000

Innovalight has a proprietary platform, named Cougar, which can adapt existing solar cell manufacturing processes that companies now own, to their cheaper silicon ink solar cells production line. There is only one step that needs to be added to current manufacturing lines, with -they say- huge profits.

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Saw-Free Manufacturing Process Makes Solar Cells 80% Cheaper

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:22:15 +0000

1366 Technologies, a company based in Lexington, MA, shows how a new manufacturing process can make silicon solar cells 80 percent cheaper. The company dreams that within 10 years they will be able to improve the technology so as the solar cells built by them to compete with coal in price.

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