Nanosolar has developed a powerful new way of assembling individual solar cells into strings and modules.

Earlier industry solutions turned out to be not robustly scalable to the kinds of throughput and performance levels that Nanosolar is targeting. These techniques did not allow high-throughput module assembly at high yield. Furthermore, conventional module architectures and interconnect schemes resulted in degraded performance for modules as more and more cells are connected to cover larger-area surfaces.

Nanosolar's patent-pending new process uniquely leverages the fact that its cells are based on a certain flexible substrate technology; it is robustly scalable to high throughput production; and it features outstanding performance scalability for large-area modules.