news digest ♦ Solar SEMI calls for constructive
action on solar trade dispute A new white paper written by SEMI analysts contains recommendations to move beyond trade litigation and encourage an accelerated path towards dispute resolution
SEMI has released the “Global Trade War and Peace: Unified Approaches to a Global Solar Energy Solution,” report.
The report is authored by SEMI and the SEMI PV Public Policy Sub-committee, which is comprised of representatives from leading solar companies with global manufacturing operations.
The report recommends three concurrent ways forward. The first is to support and promote existing efforts to unify national/ regional renewable and solar trade associations and strengthen the voice of the global industry. Industry leadership will be essential if the solar market is to advance beyond the current protectionist impasse.
Rashid Zia
Zia also points out that once the orientation of the emitters is known, it may be possible to design structured devices that maximise those directional properties.
In most applications, thin-film materials are layered on top of each other. The orientations of emitters in each layer indicate whether electronic excitations are happening within each layer or across layers, and that has implications for how such a device should be configured.
“One of the exciting things about this research is how it brought together people with different expertise,” Zia notes. “Our group’s expertise at Brown is in developing new forms of spectroscopy and studying the electronic origin of light emission. The Kymissis group at Columbia has a great deal of expertise in organic semiconductors, and the Shan group at Case Western has a great deal of expertise in layered nanomaterials. Jon Schuller, the study’s first author, did a great job in bringing all this expertise together. Jon was a visiting scientist here at Brown, a postdoctoral fellow in the Energy Frontier Research Centre at Columbia, and is now a professor at UCSB.”
This work is further detailed in the paper, “ Orientation of luminescent excitons in layered nanomaterials,” by Jon A. Schuller et al in Nature Nanotechnology (2013), published online on 3rd March 2013. DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2013.20
Funding for the work was provided by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the Nanoelectronic Research Initiative of the Semiconductor Research Corporation.
Secondly, to encourage the governments of the United States, China, Europe, India, and elsewhere to initiate a dialogue that transcends short-term enforcement actions and supports clean technologies. SEMI can play a critical role in this advocacy effort, given its experience from the semiconductor disputes of the 1990s.
Last but not least, SEMI will develop an outline proposal for creating an entity similar to the World Semiconductor Council (WSC), as well as a draft implementation plan.
William Morin, senior director of government affairs at Applied Materials and one of the white paper’s lead authors states, “The solar energy sector is a $100-billion-plus and growing global business characterised by fierce international competition. So it was probably inevitable that trade conflicts would arise. What should not be inevitable, however, is that these tensions continue to define the global solar landscape. The current path ultimately means the industry, consumers and the environment all lose. With leadership and long-term vision, we can turn this around.”
“An end to global conflict within the PV market is both advantageous and conceivable, and there are a variety of approaches that merit consideration in achieving an industry- driven solution, from the World Semiconductor Council’s model, to broad sectoral agreements in ICT and ’green goods,’ to regional pacts with 21st century standards,” adds Bettina Weiss, vice president for business development at SEMI.
According to the SEMI white paper, multiple avenues for amelioration can be examined including:
U.S-Japan Semiconductor Trade Agreement : Born out of the semiconductor dispute, the creation of the World Semiconductor Council (WSC) produced an elevated dialogue and a pathway forward for the semiconductor industry. Far beyond the scope of the initial U.S.-Japan agreement, this government-industry body was created to promote the semiconductor industry in a global way and to use trade as more than simply a tool for litigation.
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