Solar-Tectic LLC is pleased to announce that the US Patent and Trademark Office has allowed “Method of Growing Heteroepitaxial Single Crystal or Large Grained Semiconductor Films on Glass Substrates and Devices Thereon” which is the “1c-Si Laser Eutectic” Solar-Tectic technology. This technology is for growth of highly crystalline semiconductor films — single crystal or large […]
Continue reading →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 […]
Continue reading →Following 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, Solar-Tectic LLC commissioned scientists to make a pole-figure confirming heteroepitaxy of silicon on sapphire (Al203) below the melting point of ordinary sodalime glass (600C). The pole figure analysis was carried […]
Continue reading →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 […]
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