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DuPont Kapton Colorless Polyimide Film Enables World Record for Flexible CdTe PV Efficiency

New superstrate material poised to enable flexible, lightweight and efficient thin film solar modules

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

DuPont Kapton colorless polyimide film, a new material currently in development for use as a flexible superstrate for cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin film photovoltaic (PV) modules, has enabled a new world record for solar cell conversion efficiency. Empa, a leading research institute for material sciences and technology development, based in Dübendorf, Switzerland, has demonstrated a conversion efficiency of 13.8 percent using the new DuPont Kapton colorless film, leapfrogging their previous ...

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