ATHLOC: Advanced Thin Film Hybrid Low Cost PV Towards Cost Reduction of PV Through Material Optimisation and Efficient Solar Cells

Ahmed Ennaoui; Marie Buffiere; Vinod E. Madhavan; Najat Al-Jufairi; Nicolas Barth; Szczesniak Dominik; Golibjon  Berdiyorov; Said Ahzi; Benjamin Wiley Figgis; Diego Martinez

ATHLOC: Advanced Thin Film Hybrid Low Cost PV Towards Cost Reduction of PV Through Material Optimisation and Efficient Solar Cells

Ahmed Ennaoui, Marie Buffiere, Vinod E. Madhavan, Najat Al-Jufairi, Nicolas Barth, Szczesniak Dominik, Golibjon Berdiyorov, Said Ahzi, Benjamin Wiley Figgis, Diego Martinez

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The solar photovoltaic industry is dominated by crystalline silicon with a global PV market share of 90%. The global PV module production has reached about 40 GW in 2013. Competing with Si PV, thin film photovoltaic modules have reached a market share just below 10%, with dominance by two companies: First Solar for CdTe and Solar Frontier for Cu(In,Ga)(S,Se)2. Derived by the technological learning and economies of scale, solar photovoltaics industry has seen remarkable cost reductions over the past decades. One possible route to further reduce the price of the photovoltaic (PV) module and reach the grid parity is to develop an efficient PV technology based on low cost materials and processes. Thin film PV has a higher potential for cost effective production in the economy of scale than the other technologies in the market today. The competitiveness of thin film technology currently faces three significant challenges in order to achieve widespread market acceptance and adoption:

• Increasing the record efficiencies toward the theoretical limit and beyond

• Increasing the efficiency of modules (particularly, decreasing the gap between lab scale champion cells and production modules)

• Reducing direct materials and processes costs, specifically by reducing the usage of scarce materials resources

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings
Volume	2016
Edition	1
Publication status	Published - 22 Mar 2016

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Ennaoui, A., Buffiere, M., Madhavan, V. E., Al-Jufairi, N., Barth, N., Dominik, S., Berdiyorov, G., Ahzi, S., Figgis, B. W., & Martinez, D. (2016). ATHLOC: Advanced Thin Film Hybrid Low Cost PV Towards Cost Reduction of PV Through Material Optimisation and Efficient Solar Cells. In Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings (1 ed., Vol. 2016) https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=CJM4hqsAAAAJ&cstart=100&pagesize=100&citation_for_view=CJM4hqsAAAAJ:CHSYGLWDkRkC

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ATHLOC: Advanced Thin Film Hybrid Low Cost PV Towards Cost Reduction of PV Through Material Optimisation and Efficient Solar Cells. / Ennaoui, Ahmed; Buffiere, Marie; Madhavan, Vinod E. et al.
Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference Proceedings. Vol. 2016 1. ed. 2016.

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