A new manufacturing process developed by an American start-up company is said to reduce silver consumption and increase the performance of solar modules by up to 3 W. Voltage without physically damaging and rewiring the battery.

The proposed battery architecture requires a smaller silver contact area.

SolarInnovations, a start-up company based in Georgia, announced that its configurable current battery or C3 technology for solar cell manufacturing has obtained a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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The main advantage of C3 technology is to reduce the cost of silver metallized solar cells. Aluminum and nickel-copper are low-cost metalizations that are increasingly used in solar cell manufacturing.

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