Welcome to the 6th edition of the NextBase project newsletter

With this last project newsletter, the NextBase project has entered its 36^th month and is coming to an end. The most important progresses, compared to the last newsletter, are the improvement on module level. A 2 x 2 mini-module using M2 size tunnel IBC-SHJ solar cell and SmartWire interconnect reached a module efficiency above 22% fulfilling the module efficiency objective of the project. Besides, a 60-cell IBC-SHJ solar module was fabricated and demonstrated at the EUPVSEC 2019 Exhibition in Marseille, France. The NextBase project was under spotlight and attracted many attentions at the EUPVSEC 2019 with a final report, many oral and visual presentations and a joint booth with the sister projects DISC and AMPERE. The NextBase project has fulfilled its mission to bring the IBC-SHJ technology a significant step closer to mass production. Thanks to the whole consortium and especially the work package leaders Frank Versluis (Uniresearch), Paul Procel Moya (TUD), Mathieu Boccard (EPFL), Bertrand Paviet-Salomon (CSEM), Damien Lachenal (Meyer Burger), Eszter Voroshazi (imec), Antonin Fejfar (FZU), and Ravi Vasudevan (CEA-INES) for a fruitful collaboration that made the project a success.