CleanTechnica » solar efficiency record http://cleantechnica.com Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:48:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 First Solar Sets New Solar Efficiency Record For Thin Film http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/27/first-solar-sets-new-solar-efficiency-record/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/27/first-solar-sets-new-solar-efficiency-record/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:08:33 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=48933 Solar innovator First Solar has just announced a new word record for solar cell conversion efficiency, for its cadmium-telluride (CdTe) thin film solar cell. That’s significant because CdTe solar cells can be made more quickly and cheaply than conventional silicon solar cells, bringing down the cost of solar power. The title of solar efficiency record

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/02/27/first-solar-sets-new-solar-efficiency-record/feed/ 3 Sharp Hits Concentrator Solar Cell Efficiency Record, 43.5% http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/31/sharp-hits-concentrator-solar-cell-efficiency-record-43-5/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/31/sharp-hits-concentrator-solar-cell-efficiency-record-43-5/#comments Thu, 31 May 2012 12:12:35 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38686   Sharp has developed solar cells that match the concentrator solar cell efficiency world record set by Solar Junction last year. The technology’s staggering 43.5% efficiency from a triple-junction compound solar cell is 1.2% higher than the efficiency of the cells holding the record before March of 2011 (when Solar Junction busted that record). The conversion

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/31/sharp-hits-concentrator-solar-cell-efficiency-record-43-5/feed/ 4 MiaSolé Sets New World Record for Flexible PV Module Efficiency http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/25/miasol-sets-new-world-record-flexible-pv-module-efficiency/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/25/miasol-sets-new-world-record-flexible-pv-module-efficiency/#comments Fri, 25 May 2012 10:53:06 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=38530   Another day, another solar world record set. I think I need to start a page of solar world records — would be a useful resource, I imagine. The latest is from MiaSolé, which has set a new world record of 15.5% area efficiency for flexible PV solar modules. Here’s more info from MiaSolé: “MiaSolé,

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/25/miasol-sets-new-world-record-flexible-pv-module-efficiency/feed/ 7 First Solar Sets 14.4% World Record for CdTe Solar Panel Efficiency http://cleantechnica.com/2012/01/17/first-solar-sets-14-4-world-record-for-cdte-solar-panel-efficiency/ http://cleantechnica.com/2012/01/17/first-solar-sets-14-4-world-record-for-cdte-solar-panel-efficiency/#comments Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:29:06 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=33966 First Solar improved the total area efficiency of CdTe (cadmium telluride) solar cells to 14.4%, breaking the previous 13.4% record

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/01/17/first-solar-sets-14-4-world-record-for-cdte-solar-panel-efficiency/feed/ 5 Solar Cell with 114% External Quantum Efficiency http://cleantechnica.com/2011/12/20/solar-cell-with-114-external-quantum-efficiency/ http://cleantechnica.com/2011/12/20/solar-cell-with-114-external-quantum-efficiency/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 14:36:46 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=33146   Scientists at National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) reported “the first solar cell that produces a photocurrent that has an external quantum efficiency greater than 100 percent when photoexcited with photons from the high energy region of the solar spectrum” at the end of last week. Promising news. More from NREL: The external quantum efficiency for photocurrent,

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2011/12/20/solar-cell-with-114-external-quantum-efficiency/feed/ 1 New Thin-Film Solar Module Efficiency Record Set http://cleantechnica.com/2011/12/05/new-thin-film-solar-module-efficiency-record-set/ http://cleantechnica.com/2011/12/05/new-thin-film-solar-module-efficiency-record-set/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:30:52 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=32669   Yes, it’s that time again — another solar power efficiency record has been set! The category: thin-film solar module efficiency. The company: Solibro, a subsidiary of the large German solar company Q-Cells SE. The efficiency: 17.4% (of aperture area). The confirming party: the independent Fraunhofer ISE Institute. Where will the technology be used? In “next generation

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2011/12/05/new-thin-film-solar-module-efficiency-record-set/feed/ 8 New Flexible Solar Cell on Plastic Efficiency Record http://cleantechnica.com/2011/06/01/new-flexible-solar-cell-on-plastic-efficiency-record/ http://cleantechnica.com/2011/06/01/new-flexible-solar-cell-on-plastic-efficiency-record/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:37:09 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=27807 Solar records are broken left and right. We can't cover them all, of course, but try to cover the big ones. Recently, researchers ar Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, set a pretty big one. They increased the solar cell efficiency record of flexible solar cells made of copper indium gallium (di)selenide (aka CIGS) from 17.6% to 18.7%, a pretty significant increase

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2011/06/01/new-flexible-solar-cell-on-plastic-efficiency-record/feed/ 1 Solar Junction Breaks Concentrated Solar World Record with 43.5% Efficiency http://cleantechnica.com/2011/04/19/solar-junction-breaks-concentrated-solar-world-record-with-43-5-efficiency/ http://cleantechnica.com/2011/04/19/solar-junction-breaks-concentrated-solar-world-record-with-43-5-efficiency/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:45:26 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=26043 Solar Junction, a company headquartered in San Jose, California has once again broken the efficiency world record for production-ready solar cells, which was confirmed by the United States' National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) last week. The new record, 43.5%, is 1.2% higher than the previous record

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2011/04/19/solar-junction-breaks-concentrated-solar-world-record-with-43-5-efficiency/feed/ 5 Boeing to Start Commercial-Scale Production of High-Efficiency (but Not Record-Breaking) Solar Cells http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/24/boeing-to-start-commercial-scale-production-of-high-efficiency-but-not-record-breaking-solar-cells/ http://cleantechnica.com/2010/11/24/boeing-to-start-commercial-scale-production-of-high-efficiency-but-not-record-breaking-solar-cells/#comments Wed, 24 Nov 2010 19:03:03 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=18866 Sharp, GE, Google, Boeing,… who isn’t in the clean tech game these days? Boeing (yes, the airplane company) has just announced that it “plans to deliver its first commercial scale high-efficiency solar-power cells for Earth-based electricity production in January,” according to Bloomberg News. Boeing’s concentrating photovoltaic cells have an efficiency of up to 39.2%, which

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