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Trina Solar (TSL) Announces Technology Breakthrough, Achieves 18.8% Efficiency In Lab With Square Solar Cells

Square solar cells are all the rage these days.  Somebody thought of a brilliant plan .. how about we make our solar cells square for more surface area?  Brilliant!!!  Solarfun (SOLF) announced their square cells which lead to 5% more efficiency last summer and this morning Trina Solar (TSL) has announced that they too have developed a square monocrystalline cell that achieves up to 18.8% efficiency in a lab setting.

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