Nanowire on soda-lime glass technology for solar cells. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent (US Pat. No. 8,491,718) for Solar-Tectic LLC’s “1c-Si NW” solar cell technology, titled “Methods of Growing Heteroepitaxial Single Crystal or Large Grained Semiconductor Films and Devices Thereon” which was filed by the late Dr. Praveen Chaudhari, winner of the 1995 […]
Continue reading →Link to cite USA – Solar-Tectic reports that it has been granted a world-wide exclusive license for a method of manufacturing single-crystal thin films on ordinary glass over a large area for photovoltaic and display applications. The method stems from a Dartmouth College-sponsored research agreement with Solar-Tectic, initially inspired by a related technology disclosed by […]
Continue reading →CIGS market to double by 2015 The market for solar installations based on copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film panels is expected to double in size to $2.35bn billion in 2015, as manufacturers signaled a breakout year in 2011 by taking advantage of falling production costs, improving module conversion efficiencies and increasing adoption in commercial rooftops, […]
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