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• Popular Technical Papers

  • Overview of automation in the photovoltaic industry
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• Featured Technical Papers

  • Transparent conducting oxide deposition techniques for thin-film photovoltaics
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  • Integrated loops: a prerequisite for sustainable and environmentally-friendly polysilicon production

This review is based on primary research of global solar cell and thin-film manufacturing companies that are currently manufacturing, expanding manufacturing, building facilities for manufacturing or progressing towards establishment of manufacturing facilities. The study looks at historical, present and future name-plate capacities for the global continental regions and also for specific countries with large existing capacity or rapid capacity growth and is based on approximately 600 companies and manufacturing facilities throughout the world. It addresses primary manufacturing technologies including monocrystalline silicon (sc-Si) & multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) wafer based solar cells, thinfilm silicon panels (amorphous, amorphous/micro-crystalline, crystalline on glass), cadmium telluride (CdTe), copper indium (gallium) sulphide/selenide (CIS/CIGS/CIGSe/CIGSSe), dye sensitized solar cells (DSSC/DSC) and other organic solar cells/photovoltaics (OPV). The study acknowledges that there are manufacturers of multi-junction and concentrator solar cell and modules (Fresnell lenses or mirror reflectors) but does not include them in the review.

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