Researchers working with copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar cells reported a 20.4 percent efficiency result on ...

In an interview with pv magazine, Empa scientist Mirjana Dimitrievska explains that the CIGS photovoltaic technology, while promising for efficiency and flexible applications, faces persistent ...

Idemitsu Kosan, a Japanese oil and chemical manufacturer, and Source Energy Company, a US-based space solar power system components manufacturer, announced collaboration plans to develop copper indium ...

Combining two semiconductor thin films into a tandem solar cell can achieve high efficiencies with a minimal environmental footprint. Teams have now presented a CIGS-perovskite tandem cell that sets a ...

KIER achieves world’s highest efficiency of 23.64% with flexible perovskite/CIGS thin-film tandem solar cell The Korea Institute of Energy Research (President Yi Chang-keun, hereinafter referred to as ...

It is not easy to bring new technologies from the laboratory to market. Researchers and companies face very different demands for new developments and do not always find common ground. Scientists at ...

Swedish solar manufacturer Midsummer has selected the municipality of Flen in central Sweden to build a 200MW thin-film solar cell manufacturing facility. The company will take over the premises in ...

Improved contact layers helped boost the efficiency of the experimental CIGS-perovskite tandem cell to 24.6%. Image: HZB Researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and Humboldt University ...