Industrial Solar Cell Developments at Fraunhofer ISE Targeting High Efficiency and Sustainable Production

Recording of Friday, June 16, 2023 | The smarter E Europe | Exhibition Program | Language: English | Duration: 15:60 .

Talk of session: The Future of Solar Cell Technologies: From the Lab to Production

European research institutes are at the forefront of solar cell research and the results speak for themselves: perovskite-silicon cells, clean room TOPCon and IBC cells are breaking efficiency records. Lab results are promising, making the future of photovoltaics look bright. Bringing clean room technologies to production lines is going to be the next step.

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Exploiting the Massive Innovation Potential for PV in Efficiency, Cost, Resource Usage and Application Areas

To Talk

Novel Interconnection Technologies for Future Solar Cells and for Integrated PV Applications

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Harmonization & Standardization Challenges of Perovskite PV: Lessons learned from the H2020-project VIPERLAB

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Cell to Module R&D for TW Manufacturing with Low Environmental Footprint

To Talk

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