Solar Frontier sets new efficiency record at 17.8% making competition cut-throat with First Solar

Solar Frontier, a Japanese copper indium selenide (CIS) cell and module manufacturer, announced a world record of 17.8% aperture area efficiency for a 30 cm x 30 cm CIS-based sub-module. The company broke its own record of 17.2% efficiency sub-module that it announced in March 2011. The research wor...

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