Abstract
AbstractA systematic approach has been used to scale up high efficiency 0.25cm2 active-area amorphous Si alloy based triple-junction devices to high-efficiency encapsulated modules of aperture area ~920cm2. In order to analyze the losses involved in the scale-up, intermediate aperture area, 40cm2 and 450cm2, modules have also been fabricated. The best stable active-area efficiency obtained on the small-area cells is 12.9%. The best initial efficiency of a ~920cm2 aperture area encapsulated module is 12.1%. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has independently light soaked three of the ~920cm2 modules. They have measured a stable efficiency of 10.5% which represents a new world record. This paper presents various aspects of the large-area module work.
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