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Solar Frontier Achieves Thin-Film Solar Cell Efficiency of 22.9%

Efficiency for CIS cell is 0.3% over the current world record.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Solar Frontier K.K., the world’s largest provider of CIS solar energy solutions, has set a new world record for thin-film solar cell efficiency. In joint research with the National Research and Development Agency’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan, Solar Frontier achieved 22.9% conversion efficiency on a 1cm2 cell using its CIS technology.   Independently verified by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Nove...

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