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For all those that have been waiting to catch a glimpse of how Nanosolar has been printing its next-generation thin film solar cells, here's some eye candy for you. The company, which started manufacturing in just December, put up this video clip of what the company says is the solar industry's first 1 GW production tool. The $1.65 million machine prints at an awesome 100-feet-per-minute pace and uses nanoparticle ink, which the company says is their secret sauce.
Nanosolar CEO Martin Rocheisen writes on his blog that the speed of the process makes the company's printing "two orders of magnitude more capital efficient than a high-vacuum process: a twenty times slower high-vacuum tool would have cost about ten times as much per tool."
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