Your daily dose of photovoltaic technology developments and solar news

• Most Popular Articles

  • Q-Cells CEO exits amid investor anxiety
  • Moser Baer achieves 7.3% module efficiency through its proprietary process
  • Solar photovoltaic market grew 6% in 2009, says Solarbuzz
  • Yingli Green to add 300MW of capacity; tops $1B in annual revenues, achieves record module shipments
  • Project Focus: SunPower scores 200MW rooftop PV contract with Southern California Edison

• Popular Technical Papers

  • Photovoltaic Fab Managers’ Forum Review
  • Photovoltaic industry 2009: a journey into uncertainty
  • Overview of automation in the photovoltaic industry
  • Thin-film CIGS starts to come of age
  • CIGS, CdTe thin-film PV equipment sector emerges, standardization remains elusive

• Subscribe to our weekly newsletter

  Name
  Job title
  Company
  Email

Air Products has signed a turnkey gas supply contract to provide its SunSource solutions liquid bulk and specialty gases, related gas distribution equipment, and engineering services to DuPont Apollo (Shenzhen) at its new amorphous silicon thin-film photovoltaic facility in GuangMing New District, Shenzhen, China.

The contract includes the long-term supply of nitrogen, hydrogen, argon, oxygen, and specialty gases, such as silane, as well as phosphine mixtures and other dopant gases, the company said. Air Products has also installed complete gas distribution systems from its source containers to the point of use within the facility.  

DuPont is building a new research center in Hong Kong and the manufacturing facility in Shenzhen to support the a-Si TFPV market.

Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.