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Advance solar technology by marrying quality assurance with design engineering

Nature Energy volume 3, pages 1016–1018 (2018)Cite this article

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The photovoltaics industry has grown remarkably in recent decades but as it has grown, quality assurance during the manufacturing and installation processes has become increasingly important. There is often a cultural divide between those who develop and those who implement the designs, motivating partnering of these efforts.

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Fig. 1: Snail trails on silicon PV modules.

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