Solar Frontier has announced that it has achieved 17.2% aperture area efficiency on a 30x30cm CIS-based photovoltaic submodule, according to in-house measurements. This new world record for thin-film CIS technology was accomplished at Solar Frontier’s dedicated research laboratory in Atsugi, Japan, a cornerstone of the company’s integrated research and production framework, in cooperation with Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO). The new record surpasses Solar Frontier’s previous achievement of 16.3% set in September, 2010. As per Solar Frontier, the details of the 17.2% achievement will be made available at the 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference, to be held June 19-24, 2011 at the Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, Washington.
Solar Frontier’s Atsugi Research Centre is one of the most advanced solar R&D labs in the world. The basic work for the products built by Solar Frontier is performed at the Solar Frontier’s Atsugi Research Centre. Solar Frontier has integrated research and production framework, which includes a pilot plant equipped with the machines on which Solar Frontier’s gigawatt-scale Kunitomi plant’s machinery is based. Solar Frontier applies the technological advances made in Atsugi to mass production through its integrated research and production framework. Solar Frontier initiated R&D in its labs to improve conversion efficiency and apply the achievements to its production modules so as to provide the customers with ever higher performance thin-film CIS modules. The next-generation modules of Solar Frontier are manufactured at the Kunitomi plant, and their commercial production started in February 2011
Solar Frontier, a 100% subsidiary of Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K., established the world’s first gigawatt-scale CIS module factory in 2011 with a mission to create the most economical, ecological solar energy solutions in the world, on the world's largest scale. Solar Frontier’s proprietary CIS technology, denoting key ingredients copper, indium, and selenium (in addition to gallium and sulfur), has the best overall potential to set the world’s most enduring standard for solar energy. Solar Frontier is working on solar technology since 1970, giving priority focus to CIS since 1993 in its laboratories. Solar Frontier’s success in large scale CIS commercialization is since 2007. The critical factors that combine to make CIS the overall economical and ecological leader include high efficiency modules and production processes as well as superior reliability, stability, sustainability, non-toxicity, and lower overall energy consumption in manufacturing to yield a faster energy payback time. These factors at gigawatt scale enable Solar Frontier to meet worldwide demand for the new standard in affordable solar panel performance.
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