JA Solar Holdings Co. (China), one of the world’s largest solar cell producers, announced this week that its p-type mono-crystalline silicon (“mono-Si”) solar cells, a new family of high-performance solar cells dubbed “Percium,” have surpassed 20% conversion efficiency. Only recently we reported that company’s multi-crystalline silicon (“multi-Si”) solar cells have reached a conversion efficiency of 18.3%.
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