Recent developments in the sapphire glass industry reported in the general press mean the possibility of combining Solar-Tectic LLC semiconductor sapphire technology with the new sapphire glass technologies. This past year Solar-Tectic LLC succeeded in depositing single crystal silicon on sapphire substrates below the softening point of soda-lime glass (600C). The results were confirmed by […]
Continue reading →Solar-Tectic LLC reports the first-ever extremely highly textured [111] Magnesium Oxide (MgO) thin film on ordinary (soda-lime) glass by an electron-beam (e-beam) deposition method. Such MgO films on glass will have wide ranging applications in various industries, including solar. A paper reporting the results has been submitted to a peer reviewed journal for publication.
Continue reading →Solar-Tectic LLC submitted a paper titled “Extremely Highly Textured MgO [111] crystalline films on soda-lime glass by e-beam” to the Journal of Crystal Growth, a peer reviewed journal, reporting on its breakthrough technology for depositing crystalline MgO films on soda-lime glass.
Continue reading →The previous press release dated September 23 is incorrect. Further data shows that Solar-Tectic LLC has not achieved single crystal Si or heteroepitaxy on soda-lime glass. Apologies for any confusion or inconvenience this may have caused.
Continue reading →Solar-Tectic LLC reports the successful fabrication of the first-ever single crystal heteroepitaxial silicon ultra thin film on ordinary (soda-lime) glass. The sample was made by Blue Wave Semiconductors (BWS) following a recipe by the late Dr. Praveen Chaudhari, and was characterized at SUNY College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering in Albany, NY, under the guidance […]
Continue reading →In a publication in Global Solar Technology Magazine (Volume 6 number 3 May/June 2013) reporting on the first ever metal-induced single crystal heteroepitaxial solar cells, the authors erroneously wrote that the method involved Solid Phase Epitaxy. In fact, the method is closer to Liquid Phase Crystallization.
Continue reading →The Fraunhofer Institute ISE “CalLab” (Freiburg, Germany) has issued certificates confirming the results of the single crystal silicon on sapphire solar cells fabricated by Solar-Tectic LLC earlier this year (in collaboration with NREL and BWS) and adding a few additional measurements of the cells. The certificates with information can be found on the Solar-Tectic LLC […]
Continue reading →Following a publication in Global Solar Technology Magazine (Volume 6 number 3 May/June 2013) reporting on the first ever metal-induced single crystal heteroepitaxial solar cells, Solar-Tectic LLC commissioned scientists to make a pole-figure confirming heteroepitaxy of silicon on sapphire (Al203) below the melting point of ordinary sodalime glass (600C). The pole figure analysis was carried […]
Continue reading →Nanowire on soda-lime glass technology for solar cells. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent (US Pat. No. 8,491,718) for Solar-Tectic LLC’s “1c-Si NW” solar cell technology, titled “Methods of Growing Heteroepitaxial Single Crystal or Large Grained Semiconductor Films and Devices Thereon” which was filed by the late Dr. Praveen Chaudhari, winner of the 1995 […]
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