centre ZSW has achieved a world record thin-film solar cell efficiency of 22.9%, the company said. The result, achieved on a 1 sq cm cell, was 0.3% higher than a previous record set by German research Solar Frontier and verified by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. The cell used copper, indium and selenium (CIS) technology with improvements from "absorber engineering and enhanced surface treatment of the absorber layer", centre ZSW said. It was developed in partnership with Japan's National Research and Development Agency's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation.
Solar Frontier has achieved a world record thin-film solar cell efficiency of 22.9%, the company said. The result, achieved on a 1 sq cm cell, was 0.3% higher than a previous record set by German research centre ZSW and verified by Japan's National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology. The cell used copper, indium and selenium (CIS) technology with improvements from "absorber engineering and enhanced surface treatment of the absorber layer", Solar Frontier said. It was developed in partnership with Japan's National Research and Development Agency's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation.