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Progress in Research and Mass Production of Large-Scale Tandem Thin Film Si Solar Modules at Chint Solar

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 July 2012

X. Niu
Affiliation:
Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd., 1335 Binan Lu, Binjiang District Hangzhou 310053, China
C. Yu
Affiliation:
Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd., 1335 Binan Lu, Binjiang District Hangzhou 310053, China
M. Wang
Affiliation:
Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd., 1335 Binan Lu, Binjiang District Hangzhou 310053, China
G. Li
Affiliation:
Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd., 1335 Binan Lu, Binjiang District Hangzhou 310053, China
X. Zhu
Affiliation:
Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd., 1335 Binan Lu, Binjiang District Hangzhou 310053, China
B. Cheng
Affiliation:
Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd., 1335 Binan Lu, Binjiang District Hangzhou 310053, China
Z. Chen
Affiliation:
Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd., 1335 Binan Lu, Binjiang District Hangzhou 310053, China
G. Wang
Affiliation:
Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd., 1335 Binan Lu, Binjiang District Hangzhou 310053, China
C. Zhou
Affiliation:
Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd., 1335 Binan Lu, Binjiang District Hangzhou 310053, China
S. Liu
Affiliation:
Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd., 1335 Binan Lu, Binjiang District Hangzhou 310053, China
H. Deng
Affiliation:
Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd., 1335 Binan Lu, Binjiang District Hangzhou 310053, China
J. Xiao
Affiliation:
Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd., 1335 Binan Lu, Binjiang District Hangzhou 310053, China
K. Fung
Affiliation:
Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd., 1335 Binan Lu, Binjiang District Hangzhou 310053, China
L. Yang
Affiliation:
Chint Solar (Zhejiang) Co. Ltd., 1335 Binan Lu, Binjiang District Hangzhou 310053, China
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Abstract

Over the past decade, the PV industry has witnessed tremendous growth in manufacturing scale and technology advancement, with PV generated electricity cost ever approaching grid parity. Among them, Si based thin film technology has made substantial progress in demonstrating its inherent advantages in lower material cost, ease of manufacturing and higher energy yield, etc. More recently, reduced product prices and competing technologies from crystalline silicon and other thin film technologies have made amorphous and microcrystalline silicon based thin film technology very challenging, and requires further increase in module efficiency and decrease in manufacturing cost. As one of the few companies in the world with significant manufacturing capacity for tandem thin film Si PV products, Chint Solar (Astronergy) has been at the forefront of technology development for the mass production of large-scale (Gen. 5, 1.43m2) Si thin film solar modules in the last 5 years. We will review major technology advancements which have been mass production proven and led to the mass produced tandem silicon thin film module with 10.0% plus stabilized efficiency, along with the field performance of those modules.

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