Solar panels to apply antireflective coating for efficiency

Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation will distribute XeroCoat Inc.’s antireflective coating solutions for solar modules in China and Japan to dominate both countries’ solar markets in the future. XeroCoat claims that its antireflective coating can lessen light reflection of solar modules from 4 percent to 1 percent.

 

The coating can also improve the modules’ light energy absorption and conversion of the collected sunlight. Normally, regular solar panels allow only about 20 percent of accumulated solar energy to be converted into electricity, making solar power generation more costly compared with other power sources. This prevents the full-scale adoption of the renewable energy source.

 

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