News No.10

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 […]

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News No.5

Solar-Tectic LLC reports that “Ultra-thin crystalline silicon [111] films on MgO buffered soda-lime glass by E-beam evaporation” by A. Chaudhari , RD Vispute, and H. Efstathiadis,  has been submitted to the peer reviewed journal Materials Letters for rapid communication reporting a breakthrough technology that not only is a significant step towards inexpensive thin-film silicon solar […]

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Erratum

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.

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Press Release No.5

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 […]

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US Patent Issued to Solar-Tectic LLC

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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Press Release No.3

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 […]

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Press Release No.1

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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Solar-Tectic Develops Method for Manufacturing Single-Crystal Thin Films

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 […]

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Dartmouth Researchers Make Solar Breakthrough

Researchers at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering have made a significant breakthrough in the fabrication of thin-film solar panels. Recent announcements by Solar-Tectic LLC, who collaborated with the College under a “Sponsored Research Agreement,” claim a process for fabricating single-crystal silicon PV cells on glass. Translation: compact, inexpensive, and significantly more efficient solar panels. As a result of the breakthrough, the […]

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Green Technology

Firm client Solar-Tectic LLC has been granted a world-wide exclusive license for a method of manufacturing silicon 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, at a cost that is orders of magnitude lower than current methods. The invention came out of […]

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