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imec: Decade of R&D Establishes Europe in Thin-film PV

An overview of imec’s contributions to a decade of thin-film-PV research and how this fits in the bigger picture.

In a highly competitive global PV market, Europe remains at the forefront of research and development into next-generation technologies and systems, such as thin-film photovoltaics.   Thin-film PV technology has been around since the mid-20th Century (in solar-powered calculators, for example). They were rightly considered the lower-efficiency, yet cheaper, the equivalent of conventional Si-PV for a long time. Meanwhile, thanks to multi-junction devices, their efficiencies are competing with...

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