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Solliance, imec Achieve 9.7 Percent Efficiency with New Thin-Film CZTSe Solar Cell

Brings solar industry closer to sustainable alternative for the highest efficiency thin-film solar cells in production, based on CIGS

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

At the Intersolar conference in San Francisco, imomec, imec’s associated lab at the Hasselt University, and Solliance, the European R&D consortium that focuses on thin-film photovoltaic solar energy (PV), will present a CZTSe (Cu2ZnSnSe4)-based solar cell with 9.7% efficiency (1x1cm2, AM1.5G). This promising result is an important step bringing the solar industry closer to a sustainable alternative for the highest efficiency thin-film solar cells in production, based on CIGS (Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)...

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