Solar-Tectic LLC is pleased to announce that it has been accepted as a member of iClean, and so joins a select group of start-up companies that receive support at the Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Albany, New York. Incubators for Collaborating and Leveraging Energy and Nanotechnology (iClean) was […]
Continue reading →Solar-Tectic LLC is pleased to announce that the US Patent and Trademark Office has allowed “Method of Growing Heteroepitaxial Single Crystal or Large Grained Semiconductor Films on Glass Substrates and Devices Thereon” which is the “1c-Si Laser Eutectic” Solar-Tectic technology. This technology is for growth of highly crystalline semiconductor films — single crystal or large […]
Continue reading →Solar-Tectic LLC is pleased to report that “Highly textured silicon [111] crystalline thin-film on buffered soda-lime glass by e-beam evaporation” has been accepted for publication by Materials Letters and will be available for viewing on-line shortly. This Letter reports yet another major breakthrough in solar cell technology with applications in other branches of the semiconductor industry, […]
Continue reading →Solar-Tectic LLC is pleased to announce the publication of “Crystalline Al2O3 on Buffered Soda-lime Glass by E-beam” by Ashok Chaudhari, R.D. Vispute, Thomas M. Murray, and Harry Efstathiadis. The article can be found at this link to Science Direct.
Continue reading →Solar-Tectic LLC is pleased to report the publication today on-line of a Letter reporting “Crystalline Al203 on buffered soda-lime glass by e-beam” in the peer reviewed journal Materials Letters. The article can be found at the following link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167577X14015572
Continue reading →MIT Technology Review published an article today citing the founder of SunPower, Richard Swanson, and reporting on the important role of silicon solar cells in achieving cost competitiveness with fossil fuels in the very near future. MIT Technology Review – 3 Question with a Solar Pioneer SOLAR-TECTIC LLC
Continue reading →Solar-Tectic LLC and researchers at SUNY – College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) have for the first time grown an ultra-thin crystalline silicon film on a flexible thin glass sheet. The film was characterized by Raman Spectroscopy, X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), and RAMAN, confirming a crystalline [111] oriented film has been […]
Continue reading →Solar-Tectic LLC reports that “Deposition of ultra-thin silicon films on soda-lime glass for photovoltaic applications” by A. Chaudhari, R. D. Vispute, Zhouying Zhao, and Harry Efstathiadis has been submitted to the peer reviewed journal Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells reporting a breakthrough technology that is a significant step towards inexpensive thin-film silicon solar cell […]
Continue reading →Solar-Tectic LLC reports that “Ultra-thin crystalline silicon [111] films on MgO buffered soda-lime glass by E-beam evaporation” by A. Chaudhari , RD Vispute, and H. Efstathiadis, has been submitted to the peer reviewed journal Materials Letters for rapid communication reporting a breakthrough technology that not only is a significant step towards inexpensive thin-film silicon solar […]
Continue reading →Solar-Tectic LLC reports that “Extremely Highly Textured MgO [111] Crystalline Films on Soda-Lime Glass by E-Beam” has been accepted for publication in the peer reviewed journal Materials Letters, and is currently available for viewing on- line at the following link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167577X14001451 Thank You
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