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Standards have traditionally been used in other industries, especially semiconductor, to increase efficiencies and reduce costs. This article will illustrate these efforts, as well as acting as a call for participation to become involved in SEMI’s standardization developments for PV. Four active task forces have been initiated to tackle these muchneeded standards for the PV industry, namely, the Analytical Test Methods Task Force; the PV Equipment Interface Specification Task Force; the PV Gases and Chemical Purity Task Force; and the PV Facilities Task Force. As a follow-up to an article featured in the first edition of Photovoltaics International [1], SEMI has prepared this summary regarding the collective efforts of the PV Group’s standards developments.

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