Solar-Tectic LLC is pleased to announce that patent application “CIGS/Silicon Thin-Film Tandem Solar Cell” was published today by the US Patent Office “CIGS/Silicon Thin-Film Tandem Solar Cell” is available as PDF through this link
Continue reading →MIT Technology Review published an article today citing the founder of SunPower, Richard Swanson, and reporting on the important role of silicon solar cells in achieving cost competitiveness with fossil fuels in the very near future. MIT Technology Review – 3 Question with a Solar Pioneer SOLAR-TECTIC LLC
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 →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 […]
Continue reading →Solar-Tectic LLC (New York), in collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Blue Wave Semiconductors (BWS), Inc. reports the successful demonstration of the first ever metal-induced single crystal epitaxial thin film solar cell. The prototype solar cell is based on technology disclosed by the late Dr. Praveen Chaudhari, materials scientist and winner of the United States National Medal […]
Continue reading →Solar-Tectic LLC (New York) and collaborator Blue Waves Semiconductors, Inc. (Maryland) report the successful demonstration of a crucial step towards breakthrough technology owned by Solar-Tectic LLC. The technology, disclosed by the late Dr. Praveen Chaudhari, materials scientist and winner of the United States National Medal of Technology and Innovation (1995), is a unique method of growing single crystal […]
Continue reading →SOLAR-TECTIC LLC has been granted a world-wide exclusive license by Dartmouth College (USA) for a method of growing single crystal or large grained semiconductor thin-films on glass substrates, adding to the company’s intellectual property and overall objective which is the commercialization of single crystal silicon thin-film solar cells. The core of the technology involves the deposition of semiconductors films such […]
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