Commercialization of high efficiency low cost CIGS technology based on electroplating [electronic resource] : final technical progress report, September 28, 2007 - June 30, 2009 / Bulent Basol.
Imprint
Golden, CO : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, [2010]
"A project funded under the U.S. DOE Solar Energy Technologies Program's Photovoltaic Technology Incubator"--Cover.
Summary
This report describes SoloPower's work as a Photovoltaic Technology Incubator awardee within the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies Program. The term of this subcontract with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory was two years. The project focused on SoloPower's electrodeposition-based copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) technology. Under this subcontract, SoloPower improved the quality of its flexible metal substrates, increased the size of its solar cells from 0.5 cm2 to 120 cm2, increased the small-area cell efficiencies from near 11% to near 14%, demonstrated large-area cells, and developed a module manufacturing process.