The new record, set on a 30cm x 30cm CIS-based device at the company's Atsugi Research Centre (Arc), eclipses its own previous industry-best of 17.2%, achieved in March 2011.
Solar Frontier chief technology officer Satoru Kuriyagawa says the new efficiency record was set using a fully-integrated submodule produced in the laboratory using “processes very similar to what is in place in our factories” at commercial-production scale.
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