Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Just over five years ago, I was one of the steering committee members of the MIT • Stanford • UC Berkeley Nanotechnology Forum, and had the pleasure of meeting new U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu when he was one of the presenters at our first event, “Nanotech beyond the hype,” held May 29, 2003 at […]
Energy Secretary Chu good for PV
Tags: energy, PV, R&D, solar, technology
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Monday, January 12th, 2009
Rudolph Technologies today announces Discover Solar™—the first fab management software tool designed specifically to help photovoltaic (PV) manufacturers increase cell efficiency and reduce costs. Discover Solar accepts all available data from each step in the solar manufacturing process, and then applies statistical process control (SPC) algorithms to generate automated reports. A company spokesperson confirmed that […]
Rudolph’s PV fab management software
Tags: control, excursion, fab, management, MES, PV, quality, software, SPC, yield
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Friday, January 9th, 2009
SolFocus, the Mountain View, California developer of Concentrator Photovoltaic (CPV) systems, today announced that it has raised $47.5 million in the first close of its Series C financing and appointed Mark Crowley chief executive officer. Crowley, who was named president of SolFocus in August 2008, will assume the role of CEO, while previous CEO and […]
SolFocus gets new money and new CEO
Tags: 150mm, concentrator, CPV, Ge, III-V, LCOE, MOCVD, PV, solar, SolFocus, Spectrolab
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Sunday, January 4th, 2009
This is the first example of a posting to BetaSights new BetaBlog. New posts will appear most working days, so bookmark this site and check back regularly. BetaSights was founded in the fall of 2008 by industry veterans Ed Korczynski and Elizabeth Schumann, to provide commercial free, member supported, productive info about fab beta sites. […]
Welcome to the beginning of BetaBlog(SM)
Tags: Equipment, fab, FPD, IC, materials, MEMS, PV, Service
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