Solar Power's New Style.
"Mike Gering, CEO of the start-up Global Solar, picks his way along his factory floor, tracing the convoluted path that his thin-film solar panels follow from birth to shipping truck. The raw materials the workers carry are ultra-thin sheets of flexible plastic, which are then coated with a series of chemicals--indium, gallium, diselenide--that allows the module to turn sunlight into electricity."
The article goes on to touch on First Solar, and NanoSolar. It's a little brief on Thin Film basics.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Time Magazine Article - Thin Film - Global Solar, FIrst Solar, NanoSolar.
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