With its 30x30 cm solar modules using CIS technology (copper-indium-selenium), Solar Frontier reached a record efficiency of 17.8%. The modules were developed in joint research with Japanese firm New Energy and the Japanese government agency NEDO (Industrial Technology Development Organization).
Efficiency was recorded in Atsugi Research Center (ARC), the research laboratory of the Solar Frontier in Japan. CIS thin-film Solar Frontier modules are manufactured in Kunitomi factory, which began full commercial operation last year. According to the Solar Frontier representative, this efficiency was measured on a fully integrated submodule, which the laboratory produced with processes very similar to what is in place in Solar Frontier factories at commercial production scale.
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