The agreement was signed this year
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The Italian solar manufacturer Futurasun has signed a strategic partnership with the Dutch organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO).
The collaboration will work to promote the design of bifacial N-type silicon solar cells, with the technology developed to be integrated into the sides Nova-Zonne modules of Futurasun.
A statement from the two companies says that technology will provide improved efficiency, superior bifaciality and the use of the material, while it is also tandem ready for integration with Perovskite and other technologies.
Futurasun CTO Gianluca Coletti noted that there is room to further improve the efficiency of N-type cells in the direction of “the ultimate performance of front and back contact architectures”.
“We want to take advantage of this possibility and demonstrate our production -nowadays Futurasun is extending vertically upstream. Working with TNO will help us expand our research network further,” Coletti said before he adds it The roadmap of the collaboration includes improving the front -passion and implementing passivated contact, reducing silver content and making steps to replace silver with copper contacts.
“These developments will be compatible with new tandem architectures, in particular because we develop Polyzebra back contact devices in collaboration with ISC Konstanz, which will serve as the basis for our future Bottom-Cell Tandem architecture,” Coletti also said.
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