The company has improved the peak efficiency of its multicrystalline PERC cells with a black-silicon texture on diamond-wire-sawn wafers, from 20.8% presented at last year’s EU PVSEC, to 21.6% now.

German solar research institute Fraunhofer ISE has reclaimed the multicrystalline PV cell efficiency record, achieving 21.9%. Fraunhofer researchers deployed n-type high-performance ...

Suntech’s approach still produces some multicrystalline silicon along the sides of the cube—it can still be used, but is lower efficiency than the monocrystalline.

Multicrystalline informatics toward establishment of general grain boundary physics and realization of high-quality silicon ingot with ideal microstructures Research Director Noritaka USAMI. Professor ...

Firm takes five months to break its own previous record of 22.28% for p-type multi-crystalline cell efficiency, with new 22.8% milestone certified by Germany’s ISFH ...

Major polysilicon and solar wafer producer GCL-Poly has reported a total loss for the first half of 2020 of US$281.8 million, due to a reduction of more than 50% in polysilicon production and ...

Multicrystalline Silicon: Polycrystalline material composed of multiple small silicon crystals, commonly used as a cost-effective substrate for solar cells. Directional Solidification: ...

The alternatives—multicrystalline silicon cells, which factories fabricate from lower-purity, cast ingots composed of many smaller crystals—are cheaper to make, but unfortunately they are less ...

GT Solar introduces new DSS(TM)650 ingot growth system capable of producing ingots greater than 600 kilograms. New DSS furnace from GT Solar, the DSS6 ...

PV Crystalox Solar has signed a contract with Intel spin-off SpectraWatt to supply multicrystalline wafers with a total output of 125MW during the period 2009 -2013. Financial details have not been ...

THE eighth Edgar Marburg lecture of the American Society for Testing Materials was delivered by Dr. H. J. Gough, his subject being “Crystalline Structure in Relation to Failure of Metals ...