Tool Order: Ascent Solar selects 8 roll-to-roll wet-chemical coating machines from STANGL - 18 August 2008
Suntech Power guides 2010 capacity target - 20 August 2008
Solarfun sets 2009 cell/module capacity ramp - 27 August 2008
First Solar to expand Ohio production site - 19 August 2008
While First Solar keeps on trucking, others in CdTe thin-film PV pack keep on muddling - 20 August 2008
Magma’s Oberai explains partnership with Pegasus to bring yield management software to solar PV fabs - 29 August 2008
DC Chemical wins 488 bln-won polysilicon order - 29 August 2008
Optony: where thin film and concentrating solar meet - 29 August 2008
LCD panel makers gear up thin-film solar deployment - 29 August 2008
Smit Ovens passes 2 Gigawatt peak milestone - 29 August 2008
This report provides our analysis and forecast of the latest in thin-film photovoltaics (PV) technology. Just a few years ago, thin-film PV was little more than a niche in the photovoltaics business and was associated with low-margin products such as calculators. Thin-film PV materials other than amorphous silicon were barely out of the laboratory.
Today, thin-film PV is one of the most vibrant areas of PV technology and represents a growing share of solar panel production. Initially, the market was driven by the shortage of crystalline silicon, but now that this shortage is over, thin-film PV has its low-cost, low-weight and flexibility to recommend it. And the thin-film PV market is moving well beyond amorphous silicon. In particular, CIGS seems set to offer all the virtues of thin-film PV with energy conversion efficiencies that aren't that much lower than conventional PV, while CdTe solar panels have been flourishing.
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