News No.8

Solar-Tectic LLC is pleased to report the publication today on-line of a Letter reporting “Crystalline Al203 on buffered soda-lime glass by e-beam” in the peer reviewed journal Materials Letters. The article can be found at the following link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167577X14015572

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News No.6

Solar-Tectic LLC reports that “Deposition of ultra-thin silicon films on soda-lime glass for photovoltaic applications” by A. Chaudhari, R. D. Vispute, Zhouying Zhao, and Harry Efstathiadis has been submitted to the peer reviewed journal Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells reporting a breakthrough technology that is a significant step towards inexpensive thin-film silicon solar cell […]

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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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News No.2

Solar-Tectic LLC reports the first-ever extremely highly textured [111] Magnesium Oxide (MgO) thin film on ordinary (soda-lime) glass by an electron-beam (e-beam) deposition method. Such MgO films on glass will have wide ranging applications in various industries, including solar. A paper reporting the results has been submitted to a peer reviewed journal for publication.

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News No.1

Solar-Tectic LLC submitted a paper titled “Extremely Highly Textured MgO [111] crystalline films on soda-lime glass by e-beam” to the Journal of Crystal Growth, a peer reviewed journal, reporting on its breakthrough technology for depositing crystalline MgO films on soda-lime glass.

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Press Release No.7

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 […]

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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.2

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 […]

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