{"id":5612,"date":"2016-04-28T13:09:04","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T03:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=5612"},"modified":"2017-04-19T14:00:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T03:30:25","slug":"trina-breaks-black-silicon-efficiency-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/trina-breaks-black-silicon-efficiency-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Trina Breaks Black Silicon Efficiency Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5660\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5660\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5660\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/trina-black-cell-efficiency.jpg\" alt=\"Solar Cell Efficiency\" width=\"650\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/trina-black-cell-efficiency.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/trina-black-cell-efficiency-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trina have done it again: a solar cell efficiency of 23.5%.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/panels\/trina-review.html\">Trina Solar<\/a>, one of the largest manufacturers of solar panels in the world, has announced they have achieved a new efficiency record for black silicon solar cells of 23.5% on a large-area, mono-crystalline, square silicon wafer, 156 millimeters across. This beats the previous record of 22.94% Trina achieved in May 2014. The new record\u00a0was\u00a0confirmed by the Japan Electrical Safety &amp; Environment Technologies Laboratories.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This achievement with a large cell comes two years after an efficiency of 24.4% was achieved with a much smaller, 20mm by 20mm cell, developed in collaboration with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anu.edu.au\/\">Australian National University<\/a> Centre For Sustainable Energy Systems in Canberra.\u00a0 The Australian team successfully developed black electrodes that reduced the amount of light reflected.<\/p>\n<p>Black silicon is an extremely dark form of silicon that is very efficient at absorbing light.\u00a0 There are several techniques that are\u00a0used to create it with the current commercial method being to etch silicon with plasma to reduce the amount of light reflected.\u00a0 Basically, it makes it the opposite of shiny.<\/p>\n<p>Black silicon panels were introduced to the market two years ago with efficiencies of around 18%.\u00a0 The new record achieved by Trina in the lab will lead to higher efficiency black silicon panels becoming available in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trina Solar, one of the largest manufacturers of solar panels in the world, has announced they have achieved a new efficiency record for black silicon solar cells of 23.5% on a large-area, mono-crystalline, square silicon wafer, 156 millimeters across. 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