薄膜太阳能电池与制造工艺.ppt

Here are products that we take to market. We started initially making products for the military, and there’s a reason for that. Basically, our costs were not yet under control, and the military liked the rugged benefits of CIGS—they liked the fact it was flexible, you could drive a truck over it, and shoot a bullet through it and still have the remaining part of the panel still work. They also liked the weight. You might have recalled in Afghanistan, seeing pictures of soldiers with huge 140-pound packs heading into the hills. About half of that was batteries alone. Using our products, they’re now carrying less than one tenth the weight, and can go to the field carrying additional bullets or band-aids, or water or food, and stay in the field longer. We’re also producing products for Canadian Tire and Brunton to make products for hikers and others. We found there was a tremendous acceptance of these products in the market. We now sell a wide range of commercial products in addition to military products. * * * MG: Our core technology is based on polycrystalline material, Copper Indium Gallium Diselenide. We call it CIGS. This material has the highest light absorption of thin film technologies, which means less material, about 50x less, and therefore lower cost. Due to the inherent lower costs of materials and processing, CIGS is very competitive to silicon. Earlier the moderator put up a chart that showed efficiency as a drawback for thin films. We’re looking towards large increases in efficiency and economies of scale, and cost reductions, compared to mature silicon technologies which have about 20 years in the market today. Our efficiencies are about 75% of single and polysilicon technologies today, and still increasing. We expect that since our material and product cost are lower, and our prices are becoming more competitive, and we expect to see an increase in efficiency, CIGSs should become very compelling in the market. We can put it on three different subst