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(i) Wafer manufacturers need to make a huge change in their production lines from p-type to high quality n-type mono wafer;... The energy transition from traditional fossil energies to renewable energies is one of the greatest societal challenges of the present generation. Among the different types of renewable energies, photovoltaics (PV) is considered as one of the most stable and matured technologies. The mainstream of the current PV technology is based on crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells. The research and development in this field is mainly driven by the improvement of the energy conversion efficiency and the reduction of module production cost... The commercialization of high-efficiency PV modules based on next-generation c-Si solar cells will depend on their cost competitiveness to the existing conventional c-Si technology.