Fraunhofer ISE, December 1st, 2014 A new world record for the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity has been established. The multi-junction solar cell converts 46% of the solar light into electrical energy and was developed by Soitec and CEA-Leti, France, together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Germany. It is the…
IHS, March 10th, 2014 Consistent improvements in technology and gradually lower costs will drive high-concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) systems to superior efficiencies, making HCPV an increasingly viable rival to conventional solar-generating solutions, according to the latest analysis from IHS Technology (NYSE: IHS). The cell efficiency of HCPV systems, currently at 40 to 42 percent, will exceed…
Semiconductor Today, November 26th, 2013 The Group of III-V Semiconductors of the Instituto de Energía Solar at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IES-UPM) in Spain has reported a triple-junction concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar cell with an efficiency of 39.2%, as confirmed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg, Germany. After in November 2008…
Semiconductor Today, September 25th, 2013 The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany, concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) system maker Soitec of Bernin, France, micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti in Grenoble, France and the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin have jointly achieved a new record for solar energy conversion efficiency by using a new cell structure with…
Sharp, June 17th, 2013 Sharp Corporation has achieved the world’s highest solar cell conversion efficiency*2 of 44.4%, using a concentrator triple-junction compound solar cell. These solar cells are used in a lens-based concentrator system that focuses sunlight on the cells to generate electricity. This latest Sharp breakthrough came about through research and development efforts that…
Semiconductor Today, October 15th, 2012 Solar Junction of San Jose, CA, USA, which manufactures III-V multi-junction solar cells for concentrated photovoltaics (CPV), has set raised its own world record for the energy conversion efficiency of a commercial-ready production solar cell, from 43.5% at 418 suns (achieved in April 2011) to 44% at 947 suns now,…
Sharp, May 31st, 2012 Developed within the NGCPV project by Japan’s SHARP, achieves world record for PV energy conversion, 43.5% efficiency at 306 suns. This conversion efficiency record has been confirmed by NGCPV participant, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy (one of the several organizatiosn around the world that officially certifies energy conversion efficiency measurementsin solar…
Nature Photonics, Feb 2012 In its February issue Nature Photonics, the prestigious scientific journal, publishes a review article on the Intermediate Band Solar Cell (IBSC), one of the so-called 3rd generation PV concepts with the potential to boost conversion efficiency, now being a topic of reserarch of solid state phyiscs labs worldwide. Such as multijunction…
Business Wire, April 14, 2011 Solar Junction, a developer of high efficiency multi-junction cells for the concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) market, today announced it has set a world-record for 43.5 percent efficiency on a commercial-ready production cell. This achievement was, in part, supported under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) PV Incubator Program, managed through DOE’s…
