Mercom India

Solar Firms Build BESS Capacity for Next Growth Phase: Interview

As energy storage becomes increasingly important to renewable energy integration, solar companies are positioning themselves ...
pv magazine International

Where and how to cut back-contact TOPCon solar cells to minimize recombination losses

A research team from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and Chinese PV manufacturer DAS Solar have investigated how laser cutting affects the performance of back-contact TOPCON (TBC) silicon ...
Renewables Now

First Solar sues JA Solar, American Panel Solutions over TOPCon patent

US solar panel maker First Solar Inc (NASDAQ:FSLR) has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against JA Solar and American ...
AOL

How do plug-in solar panels work – and can you install them yourself?

The Independent and Yahoo will earn a commission from purchases made via links in this article. Pricing and availability are subject to change. Plug-in solar panels could soon give households a ...
pv magazine International

EVA-induced degradation has significant impact on power losses in TOPCon solar modules

Image: UNSW, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, CC BY 4.0 A research team from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has investigated the degradation mechanisms of industrial TOPCon solar ...
GCN

Solar factories running at roughly 60 percent of global output carry a tunnel layer around one nanometer thick, and a perovskite cell built on that same TOPCon platform reached ...

The tunnel oxide layer inside today's dominant solar cell is just 1 nanometer thick. Here's how that invisible film now enables a perovskite tandem cell to crack 34% efficiency.