Solar-Tectic LLC reports the successful fabrication of the first-ever single crystal heteroepitaxial silicon ultra thin film on ordinary (soda-lime) glass. The sample was made by Blue Wave Semiconductors (BWS) following a recipe by the late Dr. Praveen Chaudhari, and was characterized at SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany, NY, under the guidance […]
Continue reading →In a publication in Global Solar Technology Magazine (Volume 6 number 3 May/June 2013) reporting on the first ever metal-induced single crystal heteroepitaxial solar cells, the authors erroneously wrote that the method involved Solid Phase Epitaxy. In fact, the method is closer to Liquid Phase Crystallization.
Continue reading →The Fraunhofer Institute ISE “CalLab” (Freiburg, Germany) has issued certificates confirming the results of the single crystal silicon on sapphire solar cells fabricated by Solar-Tectic LLC earlier this year (in collaboration with NREL and BWS) and adding a few additional measurements of the cells. The certificates with information can be found on the Solar-Tectic LLC […]
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