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GT Solar ships 2,000th DSS crystalline ingot growth furnace
GT Solar International Inc., a global provider of polysilicon production technology, and sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems andmaterials for the solar, LED and other specialty markets, has shippedits 2000th directional solidification system (DSS) crystalline ingotgrowth furnace to Green Energy Technology (GET). GET willreceive the milestone system as part of recent orders totaling $59million for [...]
Crystalline PV and CSP Compete for Utilities’ Attention
Engineers and researchers in the solarindustry have been working on increasing efficiencies in conversionrates with regards to silicon and thin film technologies for years. They have produced some modest gains in the recent past, but commercial scale solar needs more. Concentrated solar power (CSP), though, might give utilities the efficiency rates they seek, solve theintermittancy problems [...]
Crystalline Silicon PV Efficiency Leaders
So much attention gets focused on thin film aroundthese here parts that it’s easy to forget that crystalline silicon(c-Si) PV still makes up more than three-fourths of the module market(for more details on this, you can find our free research note on 2009cell and module production here). To some extent, this is understandable: the obvious [...]
GT Solar ships 1,000th DSS450 crystalline ingot growth furnace
GT Solar International Inc., a leading global provider of polysiliconproduction technology, crystalline ingot growth systems and related PVmanufacturing services for the solar industry, announced that it hasachieved the milestone shipment of its 1,000th DSS450TM crystallineingot growth furnace. The recipient of the system is long-timeChinese customer Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. Ltd. The milestoneshipment is part [...]
GT Solar Begins Crystalline Growth Equipment Installation
GT Solar International Inc., aprovider of polysilicon production technology, crystalline ingot growthsystems and related PV manufacturing services, has beguninstallation of its new DSS450HP crystalline growth systems at GCL’s new wafer manufacturing facility. The new crystalline growth systems are part of a large purchase agreement reflected in the company’sfiscal-year 2010 year-ending backlog, GT Solar notes. SOURCE: [...]
CoreFlow’s wafer singulation system for crystalline PV industry ready for shipping
CoreFlow Ltd., a leading provider of flotation solutions for precisionmanufacturing environments, announced today that its Wafer Singulationsystem SingFlow has successfully passed a number of tests at customermanufacturing sites and internal demonstrations and is ready to beshipped to customers. SingFlow is the first automatic systemthat successfully deals with the delicate separation of wafers thateliminates manual labor [...]
World’s First Leaf-shaped Crystalline Solar Panel Developed by Greendix
Solar power is definitely green and companies like Greendix havestarted efforts to make these panels look green as well. The company has developed the world’s first leaf-shaped crystalline silicon solar panel in the world via new proprietary technology. Greendix’s breakthrough new patented technology allows the manufacturing of custom shaped crystallinesilicon solar panels. Greendix solar panels [...]
Global partnership between Air Liquide and Sixtron for crystalline-Si solar cells
Air Liquide and Sixtron Advanced Materials announced an exclusivepartnership to promote and distribute advanced coating materials tocrystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cell manufacturers worldwide. This innovative Silexium technology will enable crystalline solar panelproducers – which today represent around 70 percent of all photovoltaicmanufacturers – to improve the performance of their solar cells andreduce costs/Wp without significant [...]
2010 Crystalline Solar Predictions
Myunofficial 2010 Solar Predictions. Before we start, an author’s safeharbor statement: these predictions are necessarily forward-lookingstatements and, since the future can be temperamental, any predictionthat does not exactly match can and will be graciously excused. Withthis out of the way, let’s take a look at some 2010 predictions forcrystalline silicon (c-Si) solar: End Market, Materials, [...]