China-headquartered solar PV manufacturer Trinasolar has announced 25.44% power conversion efficiency for its n-type fully passivated heterojunction (HJT) solar module, calling it a world record for large-area HJT module efficiency. Independently developed by the company’s National Key Laboratory of Photovoltaic Science and Technology, Trinasolar’s HJT module has been certified by the testing laboratory CalLab of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Germany. Trinasolar says this is the 30th time that it has created and refreshed the world record, and also the highest record for front and back contact structure crystalline silicon modules. The module uses a 210 mm x 105 mm large-area industrial-grade, phosphorus-doped, CZ n-type silicon wafer substrate. It combines thin-film passivation technology along with fully passivated HJT technology on the rear side, and multi frequency radio frequency technology. It shares, “The use of component light trap technology, ultra-high density packaging technology, and ultra-low resistance interconnect technology has achieved substantial breakthroughs in the optical and electrical performance of the components.” Less than a month ago, Trinasolar announced achieving 27.08% solar cell efficiency for HJT technology, certified by the German Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH) (see China Solar PV News Snippets: New HJT Cell Efficiency Record By Trinasolar & More). Trinasolar claims this 25.44% efficiency surpasses the previous record of 25.4% efficiency for monocrystalline silicon modules for all-back contact (BC) modules. Its compatriot and competitor LONGi had announced 25.4% solar module efficiency using its proprietary Hybrid Passivated Back Contact (HPBC) 2.0 cell technology (see LONGi Announces ‘World Record’ For C-Si Solar Module Efficiency). Speaking at the 4-day TaiyangNews annual flagship conference in December 2024, Trinasolar’s Product Manager Lukas Ye said that the manufacturer will focus on i-TOPCon as its technology of choice in the future while using it in tandem with perovskite for 28% module efficiency (see Day 3: TaiyangNews High Efficiency Solar Technologies 2024 Conference).