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Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA)

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Bifacial CIGS solar cells consist of very thin layers, only 3 µm in total for the active materials. Deposit-ed on top of a transparent electrical contact, the CIGS polycrystalline layer absorbs the light from both front and back sides.

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