CleanTechnica » thin film 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 Thin-Film Solar Cell Efficiency Record Set By First Solar (Again) http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/07/thin-film-solar-cell-efficiency-record-set-first-solar/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/07/thin-film-solar-cell-efficiency-record-set-first-solar/#comments Thu, 07 Aug 2014 17:30:54 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=70346 Originally published on Solar Love. First Solar, the world’s largest manufacturer of thin-film solar photovoltaic cells and modules, has bettered its record of producing the most efficient thin-film solar cell. The US-based company recently announced that a cell manufactured at its Ohio manufacturing factory and research & development center achieved an efficiency of 21%, the

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/08/07/thin-film-solar-cell-efficiency-record-set-first-solar/feed/ 1 Thin-Film Solar Cell Efficiency Record Set By Solar Frontier http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/11/thin-film-solar-cell-efficiency-record-set-solar-frontier/ http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/11/thin-film-solar-cell-efficiency-record-set-solar-frontier/#comments Fri, 11 Apr 2014 12:50:06 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=65168 Originally published on Planetsave. In the close race for PV efficiency, copper indium gallium (di)selenide cells have taken the lead again in tests at the Atsugi Research Center in Kanagawa, Japan. The Fraunhofer Institute, Europe’s largest application-oriented research organization, has independently verified the results. A Solar Frontier 0.5cm2 CIS configuration achieved 20.9% conversion efficiency, a

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/11/thin-film-solar-cell-efficiency-record-set-solar-frontier/feed/ 1 New Thin-Film Solar Cell Efficiency Record Set, 20.4% http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/22/new-thin-film-solar-cell-efficiency-record-set-20-4/ http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/22/new-thin-film-solar-cell-efficiency-record-set-20-4/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 13:05:18 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=47338 A new conversion efficiency record of 20.4% has been set for thin-film solar cells by researchers at Empa and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. The new record of 20.4% is a big improvement over the previous record achieved by this team (18.7%) in May 2011. The new flexible solar cells are

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]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2013/01/22/new-thin-film-solar-cell-efficiency-record-set-20-4/feed/ 13 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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