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BING
The n-Pasha cells are by nature bifacial. However, the vast majority of the n-type industrial modules are still sold as monofacial modules with an opaque back s…
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BRIGHT
In recent years, n-type polycrystalline silicon (polySi) has emerged as novel electron-contact for crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells, enabling extremely hi…
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CORE
Surfaces with excellent passivation are core enablers for high-efficiency cells. For market introduction of such technology, including next-generation solar cel…
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HIEFF
Crystalline silicon modules will, sooner or later, reach their single-junction practical limits as the ultimate improvements are increasingly costly. Addition o…
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HT-SOHO
In today's industrial solar cells, the interface between doped crystalline silicon (c-Si) and the metal contact is a major source of recombination, and therefor…
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HIPER
Crystalline silicon PV technology is reaching its practical efficiency limit. The emergence of perovskite solar cells presents an opportunity for high efficienc…
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Janus
The PV market is presently dominated by modules with p-type multi- and monocrystalline front-to-back contacted solar cells. The performance of these modules imp…
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IBCense
The annual growth of installed PV has led to dramatically decreased prices for modules and systems. For household applications, grid parity has been reached now…
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IBChampion
The growth of the PV market has been spectacular in the last years. At the same time a significant shift occurred in production location from Europe to Asia whi…
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LIMITLESS
State-of-the-art 2 terminal (2T) perovskite/crystalline silicon (c-Si) tandem cells have reached efficiencies over 29% with planar front sides. However, an esti…
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LoLoss
Performing high-efficiency n-type solar cell processing, ECN and Tempress have observed: 1. Quality variations in incoming monocrystalline silicon wafers; 2. A…
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MIRACLE
Many companies expect that after the step from aluminum back surface field (Al BSF) towards p-type passivating emitter and rear contact (p-PERC), the next silic…
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nCHANTED
Even though solar electricity products have seen a significant growth in the past years, the introduction of novel technologies is needed for further cost and p…
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nForce
After a spectacular growth in global market size during 2000 - 2010, significant consolidation is on-going in the PV market at large. The production of solar ce…
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Pamplona
Solar PV modules have significantly dropped in price in recent years. This price reduction is mainly due to economies of scale. Further price reduction requires…
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NexPas
One route to further reduce the levelized cost of electricity from Si photovoltaics is to increase the cell and module efficiency. The high efficiency n-PASHA (…
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PERCspective
With silicon module prices steeply decreasing, enhancement in efficiency is a key element towards further reduction in the LCOE. In this perspective, 2-terminal…
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PV4FACADES
Back contact module technology is the accepted route to higher efficiency PV modules (see e.g. the SEMI PV roadmap). At the same time, back-contact module techn…
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Huidige zonnepanelen zijn vrijwel allemaal enkelzijdig: alleen het licht dat op de voorzijde van het paneel valt kan energie opwekken. Met 'bi-facial PV', zonne…
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RHINO
Key elements of the cell structure are a selective boron-doped emitter and a full area passivated rear contact. For these key elements, production capable proce…
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SATURNIA
The price of c-Si PV modules has fallen so dramatically that the balance-of-system (BOS) rather than the PV modules became dominant in system price. Besides imp…
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SiCC
Nederland heeft een fantastische uitgangspositie voor hoog kwalitatief onderzoek op het gebied van kristallijn silicium zonne-energie: een aantal marktleidende …
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SICC-2
Het Silicon Competence Centre (SiCC) is een netwerk van vooraanstaande Nederlandse bedrijven en onderzoeksorganisaties die kennis en technologie delen en ontwik…
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Subsol
There are floating PV systems available for shielded water areas. The big challenge for floating PV systems is in large solar farms on waters like the IJsselmee…
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SunPass
Recently, ECN and Tempress started working on the integration of the concept of carrier selective passivating contacts into the industrial n-PERT technology (pu…
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TOP PRODUCTS
De PV industrie, en zeker de Nederlandse PV industrie, zal zich (moeten) richten op technologie voor hoge conversierendementen, omdat die in principe kosten- en…
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Champ
The most effective path to solar energy cost reductions is to increase the power output of solar modules. To extract the most power at a given efficiency, all s…