Nonactive solar materials make a difference
Dec 1, 2009 — In the never-ending quest to lower costs and boost efficiency in solar modules, attention is focused on the active-layer materials such as silicon wafers or copper indium gallium selenide thin films. Nonactive materials, however, can account for nearly half of the module materials cost, and, thus, interest is turning to the development of lower cost/higher efficiency materials such as encapsulants, metallization, antireflection coatings and transparent conducting oxides.
In the report...