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 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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