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Sharp Announces Advances in Solar Cell Efficiency

Achieves world’s highest conversion efficiency of 32.65% in lightweight, flexible, practically sized solar module.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Sharp Corporation reports it has achieved a conversion efficiency of 32.65%, the world’s highest, in a lightweight, flexible, practically sized solar module developed as part of the “Research and Development of Solar Cells for Use in Vehicles” project, which is administered by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan. The conversion efficiency was confirmed by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. The module’s convers...

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