Japan Made Photoelectric Conversion Rates Higher Thin-Film Solar Cells

Japan's Industrial Technology Research Institute announced that the Institute and a business to develop a new technology that will use CIGS thin film of the non-silicon, flexible solar cells of the photoelectric conversion efficiency, from 17.5 percent to 17.7 percent.

Industrial Technology Research Institute issued a press release said, CIGS thin film solar cell production has not aging, radiation-resistant advantages. At the same time, such a solar cell layer of photoelectric conversion can be made into the thickness of only a few microns, the quality of small, less consumption of raw materials.

The communique says, the next step of the Institute goal is to improve the photoelectric conversion efficiency of such technology, applied to practical equivalent to the size of solar cell modules.

Source: 新华网 Jul. 31, 2008