{"id":525335,"date":"2018-09-24T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=e83f392965171d0802bb4ff5c6b1964e"},"modified":"2018-09-24T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T13:59:00","slug":"screen-printed-large-area-npert-solar-cells-surpass-23-percent-efficiency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=525335","title":{"rendered":"Screen-printed, large-area nPERT solar cells surpass 23 percent efficiency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At today&#8217;s EU PVSEC conference, imec\u2014the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics, energy and digital technology and partner in EnergyVille\u2014announced that its latest generation of large-area monofacial screen-printed rear-emitter nPERT cells feature a conversion efficiency of 23.03 percent, certified by Fraunhofer ISE CalLab. The nPERT (n-type Passivated Emitter and Rear Totally diffused) solar cells are made using an industry-compatible screen-printing process that has been designed as an upgrade of conventional pPERC (p-type Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell) processes. According to imec, its nPERT technology is projected to reach 23.5 percent efficiency by the end of this year, and there is a clear technology roadmap to eventually surpass 24 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At today&#8217;s EU PVSEC conference, imec&mdash;the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics, energy and digital technology and partner in EnergyVille&mdash;announced that its latest generation of large-area monofacial screen-printed rear-emitter nPERT cells feature a conversion efficiency of 23.03 percent, certified by Fraunhofer ISE CalLab. The nPERT (n-type Passivated Emitter and Rear Totally diffused) solar cells are made using an industry-compatible screen-printing process that has been designed as an upgrade of conventional pPERC (p-type Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell) processes. According to imec, its nPERT technology is projected to reach 23.5 percent efficiency by the end of this year, and there is a clear technology roadmap to eventually surpass 24 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525336,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525335\/revisions\/525336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=525335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}