This part of the product is basic engineering, not scientific discovery like the CIGS process.
In the lab, CIGS panels have promised to be far more efficient than Cad-Tel.
Less than 1% of the installed solar photovoltaic capacity in the world is based on Cigs.
In fact I believe they are leading the pack in thin-film CIGS companies on flexible substrates.
The San Jose company, founded in 2002, makes solar panels using copper-indium-gallium-selenide (CIGS) solar cells.
That said it is far too early for any declaration that e-cigs are completely benign for our health.
Simonek says the acquisition will make it hard for remaining Silicon Valley CIGS startups like Nanosolar to remain independent.
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Given current consumption of the metal, this is sufficient for only 13 years and less than that if CIGS technology takes-off.
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Its technology is less efficient than CIGS and crystalline silicon, but First Solar can make it in huge volumes for cheap.
SoloPower, like many of its fellow CIGS thin film companies, missed production goals it had set a few years back.
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In comparison, other CIGS solar manufacturers, such as MiaSole, Avancis, Global Solar and Solar Frontier had shipped far more products than Nanosolar.
If some of those companies fail or the industry consolidates as is widely expected, that could create an opening for CIGS technology.
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The further delays had very little to do with the challenging process of making CIGS solar cells as this process was well in place.
It has been concluded therefore that in the future less than 1% of solar pv will be in the form of CIGS thin-film cells.
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As U.S. companies begin to ramp up CIGS thin film production, Q-Cells announced at the end of 2010 that its production capacity for Q.
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But producing CIGS cells on a mass scale has turned out to be a formidable technological challenge, requiring the invention of specialized manufacturing equipment.
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Naturally, Venture money poured into Cigs developers like Nanosolar and HelioVolt.
Nanosolar, another Silicon Valley CIGS thin film maker, went through a few CEOs in recent years and managed to raise more money to keep going.
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While improvements in the CIGS panel efficiencies can be expected, there is the matter of accessing the materials themselves, from which they are made, most immediately indium.
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To hear Michael Bartholomeusz tell it, making thin film solar panels out of the promising but beguiling technology known as CIGS is about as easy as baking banana bread.
Though less efficient at converting sunlight into electricity than conventional crystalline photovoltaics, CIGS cells are essentially printed on glass or flexible metal and use a minimum amount of expensive silicon.
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Today, Intermolecular announced an ongoing project with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia for the enhancement of copper-indium-gallium-diselenide (CIGS) thin film solar manufacturing technology.
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At nearly 14%, the efficiency of the thin-film panels which are made from copper, indium, gallium and selenium (CIGS), is close to that of silicon, albeit being much cheaper to produce.
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Depositing the CIGS materials evenly on glass or metal foil is a lot harder than it sounds, and figuring out a way to mass produce thin films is another big challenge.
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The target for AQT and most CIGS makers is First Solar, which has become the largest solar company in the world selling its thin film modules made out of cadmium and telluride.
Other CIGS makers have run into trouble trying translate the high efficiency and low cost promised by small lab samples of CIGS into large sheets of high-quality, durable and uniform thin films.
Many venture capitalists began backing CIGS solar companies in the mid-2000s, when the price of silicon, which is found in most of the solar panels today, reached several hundred dollars per kilogram.
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But then came a 50 percent fall in the price of conventional crystalline silicon photovoltaic modules as Chinese manufacturers rapidly ramped up production and many CIGS companies backed off their earlier optimistic projections.
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The new assertiveness comes as tobacco analysts have started to acknowledge that growing demand for "e-cigs" in the US is peeling away customers from tobacco giants such as Altria, Lorillard and RJ Reynolds.
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