In recent months, the rapidly shrinking price gap between monocrystalline and multicrystalline solar modules has created widespread expectation in the PV industry that monocrystalline technology will ...

While the focus of much of the PV manufacturing community in recent years has been on achieving cost reductions, it appears that a major push towards efficiency improvements is underway. UNSW s Martin ...

Multicrystalline silicon remains the cornerstone of photovoltaic device production, benefitting from a balance between performance and cost. The manufacturing process typically involves directional ...

MERRIMACK, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GT Solar International, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOLR), a global provider of polysilicon production technology, and sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials ...

Mitsubishi Electric announced it has achieved a record photoelectric conversion efficiency rate of 18.6% in a 150-mm-sq. practical-use solar cell, an improvement of 0.6% over the company’s previous ...

The old saw that “the devil is in the details” characterizes the kind of needling obstacles that prevent an innovative concept from becoming a working technology. It also often describes the type of ...

Although solar cells based on monocrystalline silicon deliver better performance than multicrystalline silicon, industry players believe that the latter should rise as the mainstream material for ...

Developed and produced at its State Key Laboratory of PV Science and Technology of China, Trina Solar said that the record total-area efficiency of 21.25% on standard 156×156mm substrates was achieved ...

Norway-headquartered integrated PV module manufacturer REC Group announced that it has started commercial production on what it claims is the highest power 72-cell multicrystalline solar panel in the ...

PV Crystalox Solar has signed a contract with Intel spin-off SpectraWatt to supply multicrystalline wafers with a total output of 125MW during the period 2009 -2013. Financial details have not been ...