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ECN organises the 2nd Workshop “Challenges for Photovoltaic Silicon Materials”
Rome, 7-8 October 2013[more]
Hiflex – New Organic Photovoltaic technology promises flexible, cheaper, on-the-go charging for mobile electronics
A light-weight, flexible organic photovoltaic (OPV) module, which can be used as a standalone charger or integrated with small electronic products such as mobile phones or electronic packaging and labels to give them their own solar energy supply, has been developed by the Hiflex research project....[more]
Silicon PV - 3rd International Conference on Silicon Photovoltaics
25-27 March 2013 in Hamelin, Germany[more]
ECN presents state of the art n-type PV cells in world’s largest market China
ECN is front runner in the field of solar energy technology and together with the Dutch businesses Tempress, Levitech, Eurotron and European partners, it promotes state-of-the-art technology and process equipment for high-efficiency solar cells and modules. The recently held CSPV solar energy...[more]
World’s major PV solar industries at the international MWT Workshop
How to achieve materials innovations and cost reductions to move from laboratory to mass production in solar energy as soon as possible? This is the main topic at the international 4th MWT Workshop on 20 and 21 November 2012 in Amsterdam.The world’s major PV industries and leading R&D...[more]
24.09.2012
How silicon purity affects the performance of solar cells
Most solar cells are made from crystalline silicon. Crystalline silicon is expensive because it has to be very pure to make efficient solar cells. Unfortunately, nobody knows exactly how pure and that is why manufacturers play it safe. In other words: they generally use too pure and therefore too...[more]
