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Ascent Solar Signs Agreement with Polymeur Sun of Singapore
Polymeur Sun is now an authorised reseller to market and install Ascent Solar CIGS modules in Singapore and Malaysia.
Ascent Solar has announced that Polymeur Sun will act as an authorised reseller of its lightweight, flexible, high-power thin-film copper indium diselenide (CIGS) modules.
The modules will be used for building integrated (BIPV), and portable power solutions in Singapore and Malaysia.
The agreement with Polymeur Sun gives Ascent Solar access to multiple segments in Southeast Asia’s developing solar market including direct application to building materials for both grid- connected and off-grid solutions.
Ascent Solar President and CEO Farhad Moghadam commented, “We are pleased to announce our agreement with Polymeur Sun. This relationship will give us access to new and emerging market opportunities in Southeast Asia’s rapidly growing solar market. We also expect that other products in our lineup of flexible, lightweight CIGS modules such as portable power and other off-grid stand alone solutions will be marketed through this relationship.”
Saturn JSC to Rocket Solar Cell Production in Russia with Aixtron
The Aixtron G4 15x4-inch MOCVD system will be used for GaAs solar cell production for the Russian space market.
Aixtron SE has a new order for an MOCVD reactor from Russian company Saturn Joint Stock Company (Saturn JSC).
The order comprises one AIX 2800 G4-R 15x4- inch configuration deposition system including an
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The Krasnodar based company placed the order during the fourth quarter of 2010 and following delivery in the second quarter of 2011, the system will be used to produce GaAs solar cell epitaxial materials for the Russian space market.
The new reactor will be commissioned by the Aixtron Europe support team in a dedicated facility alongside the existing Aixtron reactor at the Saturn JSC production plant in Krasnodar.
Anatoly Skursky, Director General of Saturn JSC, comments, “Our company has been very satisfied with the excellent performance and ease of use we have enjoyed with our existing Aixtron system. The service support we have received from the Aixtron Europe Process Team was of a very high standard, too. As promised, they enabled us to reach full production status in a very short time.”
“Moving up to the 15x4-inch configuration system will give us even better productivity as well as the uniformity, performance and reliability we have come to expect from Aixtron equipment. We estimate the G4 to be the most suitable state-of-the- art system for the production of solar cells.”
Saturn JSC ordered its first Aixtron MOCVD GaAs system, an AIX 2600G3, 8x4-inch, for the production of solar cells in April 2006. Saturn says this was the first solar cell production MOCVD tool in Russia.
Saturn JSC has been developing and producing solar cells and solar arrays for space applications since 1971. In this period, more than 1,200 spacecrafts were provided with solar arrays. Not only most Russian spacecrafts but also many foreign ones are equipped with solar arrays and storage batteries produced by Saturn JSC.
CIGS are King of Solar Cells
This is according to Research and Markets who have released “2011 Deep Research Report on Global and China CIGS Thin Film Solar Cell Industry”.
According to Research & Markets, report “2011
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