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Tucson firm’s solar strings can be embedded in roofing, wall covers

23 June 2008 | Thin Film: News From Around The Web | Source: tucsoncitizen.com
Tucson-based Global Solar Energy Inc. has developed a new technology that opens huge new markets for its thin-film solar devices. The firm's new PowerFlex Solar Strings provide a turnkey solution for integrating Global Solar's Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide, aka CIGS, photovoltaic solar material into a variety of products and applications, said Tim Teich, vice president of marketing.  

The PowerFlex Solar Strings offer the CIGS solar material in a form ready to use in conventional glass solar modules, as well as in building-integrated photovoltaic applications such as shingles, rolled roofing materials and exterior wall coverings, he said.  

The CIGS material is made by coating rolls of stainless steel, 2,000 feet long, 1 foot wide and one-thousandth of an inch thick,with molybdenum, CIGS, cadmium sulfide and transparent conductive oxide. The stainless steel substrate is about the thickness of aluminum foil.

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