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The POET platform is currently the basis for a number of key Odis commercial and military projects. These include optical code division multiple access devices for avionics systems, combined RF/optical phased arrays, optoelectronic directional couplers, and ultra-low-power random access memory.
The longer-term solution would look into replacing CMOS gates with POET complementary HFET gates. Opel says POET processors would provide their own optical output and also perform the optical receive function therefore a separate interface chip would no longer be required.
IQE & Solar Junction to pump up the volume of solar cells in 2013
The deal with Solar Junction, which produces 44 percent efficiency III-V wafers, should position IQE to become one of the key epiwafer suppliers to the CPV market
IQE has made significant progress in its commercial relationship with Solar Junction.
In February 2012, IQE announced an exclusive manufacturing and technology transfer agreement with Solar Junction and laid out a series of goals.
These milestones were in order to deliver full 3Junction (3J) structures to Solar Junction based on successful installation and commissioning of customised production scale MBE tools, and subsequent technology transfer from Solar Junction.
Completion of this was planned for the fourth quarter of 2012.
IQE and Solar Junction have together delivered full 3J wafers. Commercial production is expected to begin in the first half of 2013, initially with customer product qualification quantities, moving to volume production in the second half of the year.
Independently, Solar Junction has successfully qualified its cells to full IEC specifications with several customers, and is strongly engaged with all
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www.compoundsemiconductor.net January/February 2013 leading CPV systems houses.
Drew Nelson, IQE Chief Executive, says, “Our deal with Solar Junction earlier this year will significantly accelerate our well established CPV strategy and position us to become the key epiwafer supplier to the CPV market. The combination of Solar Junction’s core materials IP and technology, with its recently improved world record efficiencies of 44 percent, together with our own IP and manufacturing capabilities, provides a compelling route to significantly higher cell efficiency and cost effective, high volume production for the CPV industry.”
“That combination is now all but complete and we are on track to move to commercial volume production during 2013. As we approach the end of our financial year, we are also confident that we will meet our earnings expectations. The transformational deals completed with Solar Junction and RFMD earlier this year are highly complementary and position the Group for accelerating growth in rapidly expanding markets,” adds Nelson.
China to acquire First Solar CdTe modules
First Solar will work with Zhenfa to deploy its cadmium telluride modules to power up the Xinjiang province
First Solar is to supply 2 megawatts (MW) of its CdTe solar modules to one of Zhenfa’s New Energy Science & Technology Co., Ltd. solar projects in Xinjiang province in the first quarter of 2013.
The collaboration will be First Solar’s first commercial demonstration project in China and provide a strong platform to showcase the company’s photovoltaic (PV) technology.
“This agreement marks an important step forward in First Solar’s efforts to support China’s renewable energy goals with its advanced solar technologies and global solar industry expertise,” says Bruce Yung, Managing Director and Vice President of Business Development for First Solar in China.
“We are excited to work with a strong partner like
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