For solar cell manufacturers, a close eye on consistently high quality has never been more important. Emerging technologies and processes bring the opportunity for stronger performance, but the ...

Multicrystalline silicon remains the cornerstone of photovoltaic device production, benefitting from a balance between performance and cost. The manufacturing process typically involves directional ...

Researchers at Korea University have developed a machine learning model for predicting sheet resistance in phosphorus oxychloride (POCl3) doping processes in solar cell manufacturing. “Our study aims ...

NexWafe Hits Key Milestones in Solar Efficiency and Scalability NexWafe GmbH (NexWafe) today announced significant breakthroughs in its solar wafer manufacturing technology. The company achieved cell ...

Solar manufacturers are facing rising cost pressure as silver paste now accounts for up to 30% of total cell production costs. OPIS analyst Hanwei Wu tells pv magazine that module producers currently ...

Don Cowan and Mahyar Mohammadnezhad of Kiwa PI Berlin explain the importance of upstream diligence in ensuring long-term PV ...

Wang tells PV Tech Premium that copper offers a ‘a compelling combination’ of traits to replace silver. Image: AIKO. This Premium article, which was one of the most read Premium articles in 2025, has ...

The U.S. solar energy industry has succeeded in doing something that would have been hard to imagine a few years ago: It has officially built more than enough factories to meet the country’s demand ...

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have created semi-transparent, color-tunable solar cells. Interestingly, ...

NUS researchers have developed a vapor-deposition method that dramatically improves the long-term and high-temperature stability of perovskite-silicon (Si) tandem solar cells. The findings were ...

NexWafe’s EpiNex solar wafers achieved 24.4% efficiency on a commercial M6 heterojunction (HJT) cell line, for the first time delivering performance parity with conventional CZ wafers. Modules made ...