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Illuminex has developed world-leading capabilities in nanowire array fabrication: • Breadth of materials, substrates, shapes and structures is unique and expansive • At yields and cost points compatible with industrial volume manufacturing • Enabling devices that utilize nanoscale functionality for unprecedented performance

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that houses a high-capacity chemical vapor deposi- tion system for SiNW growth. Illuminex has 3 labo- ratories in the Burle Industrial park (formerly RCA) totaling over 5500 sq. ft.

Illuminex can fabricate the silicon nanowire diodes on glass, metal, threads or virtually any surface that can be coated with a thin Al layer. These materials are particularly well suited to PV panel-based solar power generation, and the Company is currently

collaborating with Philadelphia University to produce a photovoltaic textile. The textile consists of threads covered with pillar-shaped silicon p-n junction diode nanowire arrays emanating about the periphery of a 200 micron diameter thread for looming into an electronic or „Smart“ textile.

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