in 2012, TEL Solar emphasized that it had doubled the annual output of its standard manufacturing line and reduced the expected cost of ownership by over 50% over the past three years.

The company highlights three key components of it in the latest generation production line: In addition, TEL Solar claimed to be the only supplier of transparent conductive oxide (TCO) technology with haze on demand.

This proprietary effect is seen to enable the trapping of light in the photovoltaic thin-film, maximizing conversion efficiency, thus directly enhancing the performance of its solar module and reducing its cost per watt-peak.

The company claimed its 1.4-m2 substrate to be the leading format for equipping silicon thin-film module production facilities, and that it became an industry standard through numerous installations.

The micromorph stacked-cell concept was pioneered and patented at the Institute of Microtechnology (IMT) of the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, and licensed to TEL Solar in 2003.