2 July 10 - IMPT completes successful fund raising for Thin-Si
IMPT is pleased to announce that it has successfully raised further funds as part of the matched funding for its EU backed Thin-Si project.
The vision of the 11-company consortium behind ThinSi (or “thin silicon”) is the development of crystalline silicon thin-film solar cells as part of a high throughput, cost-effective manufacturing process that aims to reduce substantially the consumption of high-purity silicon material, but at the same time maintain high efficiencies comparable to wafer silicon solar cells.
IMPT is also seeking to progress a second EU backed "nano-PV" (nano-photovoltaic) project as part of a second EU consortium. More news on this should hopefully be available in the final quarter of 2010.
Both EU backed projects are aimed at reducing the cost of manufacturing solar wafers. As part of the European Thin-Si consortium, IMPT is contributing its low cost coating technology and now has a detailed plan for producing a prototype coating machine.
It is hoped that IMPT's large area 2D Thin-Si coating machine will be transferred into production for coating solar cells sometime in 2012.
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