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Empa achieves record 20.4% efficiency for flexible thin film

  • Thin film solar cells
    Thin film solar cells

By Kizzi Nkwocha - 18 January 2013, 10:29

Scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have developed thin film solar cells on flexible polymer foils with a new record efficiency of 20.4% for converting sunlight into electricity.

Empa said the cells are based on CIGS semiconducting material (copper indium gallium (di)selenide) known for its potential to provide cost-effective solar electricity. The technology is awaiting scale-up for industrial applications.

To make solar electricity affordable on a large scale, scientists and engineers the world over have long been trying to develop a low-cost solar cell, which is both highly efficient and easy to manufacture with high throughput.

The team at Empa's Laboratory for Thin Film and Photovoltaics, led by Ayodhya N. Tiwari, achieved a record 20.4% energy conversion efficiency for thin film CIGS solar cells on flexible polymer substrates, a huge improvement over the previous record of 18.7% achieved by the same team in May 2011.

Tiwari’s team has been investigating and developing various thin film solar cell technologies for some time. Over the years the laboratory has boosted the photovoltaic conversion efficiency of flexible CIGS solar cells time and again, from 12.8% in 1999 – the group’s first world record – to 14.1% in 2005, 17.6% in 2010 and 18.7% in 2011.
 

 

 

 



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