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3M Introduces Backside Busbar Tape 4706

Product reduces need for silver paste, enabling lower costs

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

3M Renewable Energy debuted its latest innovative solution for the solar industry at Solar Power International, Oct. 21-24 in Chicago, IL. The new 3M Backside Busbar Tape 4706 allows manufacturers to eliminate silver-based backside busbars, enabling significant cost savings and protecting against the volatility of silver prices. In addition, this tape-based solution has the potential to improve absolute efficiency by approximately 0.2%. 3M Backside Busbar Tape 4706 is a copper foil tape coate...

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