Making More Solar Cells from Silicon (Technology Review)

3 March 2010, 9:07 pm

1366 Technologies hopes to cut the cost of solar with cheaper manufacturing. A new manufacturing process could cut the cost of making crystalline silicon wafers for solar cells by 80 percent. The process is being developed by Lexington, MA-based 1366 Technologies , which this week showed off the first solar cells made this way. The technology is key to the company's plan to make solar power ...... Read More »

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