Thin Film Intelligence Brief 18 – 31 January 2012

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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Solar-Tectic LLC Gets Exclusive License for Manufacturing Single c- Si Thin-Films on Ordinary Glass

http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/news/solar-tectic-llc-gets-exclusive-license-for-manufacturing-single-c-si-thin/ SOLAR-TECTIC LLC has been granted a world-wide exclusive license for a method of manufacturing single crystal silicon (cSi) thin-films on ordinary glass over a large area, thus allowing for the commercialization of single crystal silicon thin-film solar cells for the first time. The invention came out of a Dartmouth College Sponsored Research Agreement with Solar-Tectic LLC, initially […]

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