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Photo of 5-megawatt solar cell production equipment.
This 5-megawatt solar-cell production equipment at United Solar, built by Energy Conversion Devices (ECD), was dedicated exclusively to triple-junction cell production. ECD's goals under its 1998 PVMaT subcontract was to reduce module cost by 25% - 30% and increase manufacturing capacity by 60%.

The PV manufacturing R&D Project team have prepared several useful technical papers and reports during the life of the Project that are organized in a searchable database. You can search all papers published by the PV Manufacturing R&D project staff coordinators by author, year of publication, or a portion of the title.

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To find other useful publications about solar technologies and solar research progress, please visit:

NREL Publications Database
OSTI Publications Database
Sandia National Laboratories PV Systems R&D Web site

To learn more about the cost-shared research with each industry partner, please visit our Research Partnerships Database. The database also contains the final subcontract report for each of the completed research subcontracts.

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