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The Chip Shots blog channels the observations of Fabtech's and PV-Tech/Photovoltaic International's Senior Contributing Editor--USA, Tom Cheyney, a 20-year veteran of semiconductor, advanced micro/nanoelectronics, and solar manufacturing trade journalism. For 15 years, Tom was editor in chief of MICRO (the original home of Chip Shots) until it ceased publication in July 2006. Tom calls Los Angeles home. This ain’t no strip mall: SoloPower abandons flat-plate strategy, embraces flexible CIGS PV module
One of Silicon Valley’s CIGS thin-film PV contingent that has been flying off the radar since the middle of 2009 is SoloPower. After I spoke with CTO Bulent Basol at the IEEE PVSC in early June, the company went through a change of command later that month. Lou DiNardo took over the CEO reins from contentious cofounder Houmayoun Talieh, with Basol, the other cofounder, also exiting.
Soft pretzels and CIGS: Even more from the IEEE PVSC/PV America event
PHILADELPHIA—No one was jonesing for CIGS at last week's IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference—copper-indium-gallium-(di)selenide thin film-related programming, that is. Several oral and poster sessions were dedicated to the technology (or, in some cases, its copper-indium-sulfide cousin), while CIGS-specific presentations on window and contact layers as well as characterization and analysis approaches were also prevalent in other sessions. For a PV food group with less than 1% market share of the installed system base, CIGS had a mighty presence at the annual event.
