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  • IMEC Aims for Less Solar Silicon
    Aaron Hand, Executive Editor, Electronic Media - 07/16/2008
     IMEC (Leuven, Belgium) is developing a way to make solar cells more cost-effective, producing ~50-µm-thin crystalline silicon wafers using tools already available in the industry. More

  • What’s Your Solar Story?
    Aaron Hand, Executive Editor, Electronic Media - 07/17/2008
     Officially, SEMICON West has more than 250 exhibitors that have offerings for both the photovoltaics and the semiconductor markets. But it seems that nearly every exhibitor has some sort of solar story to tell. More
  • Surface Profiler Tackles Solar Market
    Aaron Hand, Executive Editor, Electronic Media - 07/16/2008
     KLA-Tencor’s (Milpitas, Calif.) latest stylus surface profiling system, unveiled this week at Intersolar North America, offers advanced features for scientific research and production environments, such as solar cell manufacturing. More
  • Intersolar Shows PV/Semi Synergies
    Aaron Hand, Executive Editor, Electronic Media - 07/15/2008
     As photovoltaics (PV) market growth continues to skyrocket, SEMI is furthering its PV initiative at this year’s SEMICON West. In addition to the more than 250 SEMICON West exhibitors showing their PV-related wares, Intersolar North America is co-located with the exhibition, located on the third floor in the West Hall of Moscone Center this week. More
  • High Tech U Shoots for the Sun
    Gary Summers, Contributing Editor, SEMI, San Jose - 07/15/2008
     High Tech U is an international industry-driven math- and science-based career exploration program. "It’s never too early to make our students aware of the exciting possibilities created by the next big technology boom," said SEMI Foundation Vice President Lisa Anderson. More
  • Silicon Genesis’ “kerf-free” wafering technology reduces amount of polysilicon for PV apps
    By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor - 07/11/2008
     Meant to substantially reduce the amount of polysilicon used within the ingot-to-wafer manufacturing steps and eliminate some of the costly consumables in today’s wafer manufacturing, San Jose-based semiconductor, display, optoelectronics, and solar engineered substrate process technology provider Silicon Genesis Corp has produced solar substrates for photovoltaic applications using its “kerf-free” wafering process technology called PolyMax. More
  • Intel makes another solar move with $38M investment in Sulfurcell
    By Ann Steffora Mutschler, Senior Editor - 07/09/2008
     Following Intel's spin off last month of key solar assets to form independent company SpectraWatt, the chip ginat expands its cleantech portfolio by leading a $133.7 million investment round in thin-film CIS photovoltaic solar module maker Sulfurcell Solartechnik. More
  • Applied Breaks Ground on Singapore Center
    Staff - 07/08/2008
     Applied Materials Inc. broke ground for a major manufacturing and operations facility in Singapore. The center will support customers in the Asian chip industry, as well as the rapidly growing solar markets in India and China. It is expected to open in late 2009. More
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SI's Take on Semicon West
Aaron Hand, Executive Editor, Semiconductor International
July 17, 2008
SEMICON West '08: South Hall Exodus
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SI's Take on Semicon West
Aaron Hand, Executive Editor, Semiconductor International
July 8, 2008
SEMICON West '08: Intersolar Adds to Hectic Schedule
SEMICON West, one of our busiest shows of the year, just keeps getting busier...
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Laura Peters, Editor-in-Chief, Semiconductor International
June 30, 2008
SEMICON West '08: SEMICON/West Morphs Into A Different Show
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    Leveraging Novel MEMS Technologies for Next-Generation Photovoltaic Applications
Paul Lindner, Executive Technology Director, EV Group, St. Florian/Inn, Austria, www.evgroup.com, 07/01/2008
 Cross-industry innovation involves creative imitation in the course of a radical innovation process. This article discusses a successful application of technology from the MEMS industry to the photovoltaics industry....

    Advanced TCAD Simulation Helps Optimize Solar Cell Efficiency
Ricardo Borges, Sudarshan Krishnamoorthy, Gergö Létay and Christoph Zechner, Synopsys Inc., Mountain View, Calif., 07/01/2008
 Regardless of the photovoltaic technology being pursued, the push to higher efficiencies has led to the use of new materials and structural concepts. Simulation enables the exploration and optimization of a wide range of variables....

    Thin-Film Photovoltaics Capture More of the Spectrum
Aaron Hand, Executive Editor, Electronic Media, 07/01/2008
 Although thin-film silicon solar cells do not have conversion efficiencies as high as most competing technologies, they offer compelling capabilities in terms of cost per kilowatt hour of energy. Thin-film technology, along with semiconductor and flat panel know-how, will help the solar industry reach the coveted grid parity....

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