This paper reports a major advance in string ribbon technology that allows for doubling the output of a string ribbon crystal growth and halving many associated costs. In conjunction with this, a number of advances in the growth technology have resulted in significant gains in production metrics and the lowest cost ribbon Evergreen Solar has ever produced.
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Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2005. Conference Record of the Thirty-first IEEE
Date of Conference: 3-7 Jan. 2005