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The product specifications for DayStar's new CIGS modules on a glass substrate have been developed in close cooperation with our customer and development partners to be consistent with their application requirements. Our current target is to produce monolithically integrated CIGS modules on 1.2 m by 0.6 m glass laminate substrates. They will be designed for high voltage grid-connected utility and commercial market applications. They will be initially designed to meet IEC and TUV certifications for distribution into European markets.

Official Website

• http://www.daystartech.com/cigs.cfm - DayStar has been an industry leader in the development of thin film copper-indium-gallium-di-selenide solar cells, commonly known as a CIGS solar cells, for the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity. Layers of the semiconductor are deposited along with other layers of material that enable the solar generated electricity to be carried out of the cell to the circuit connected to the utility electrical grid.

• http://www.daystartech.com/ - DayStar strives to “Make Free Energy Affordable™ by developing photovoltaic products that remove materials and manufacturing barriers currently limiting widespread use. DayStar’s Vision Statement, “Enabling Affordable Electricity from the Sun™," will be supported by our new three-year Mission Statement, “Establish a profitable manufacturing platform by 2008, expandable to Gigawatt (GW) scale."
  • Company (http://www.daystartech.com/daystar_technologies.cfm)
  • Products (http://www.daystartech.com/lightfoil.cfm) - LightFoil™, TerraFoil™ (http://www.daystartech.com/terrafoil.cfm)

Price Point

Company aims for low cost, high throughput manufacturing of high performance solar cells, modules and systems that can meet the cost demand of less than $1/Wp at the system level, which they envision to be achievable at gigawatt scale manufacturing.

Stage of Development

Production of this design is being ramped up to 20 MW per year, and soon to the GW range per year. (June 2006 [1] (http://alfin2100.blogspot.com/2006/06/silicon-free-solar-cells-bypassing.html))

In the News

• Silicon Free Solar Cells? Bypassing Peak Energy (http://alfin2100.blogspot.com/2006/06/silicon-free-solar-cells-bypassing.html) - Daystar Technologies' unique metal foil design is not vulnerable to silicon shortages. At a price approaching grid, production of this thin film design is being ramped up to 20 MW per year. (Al Fin BlogSpot; June 18, 2006)

Awards

Frost & Sullivan (http://www.frost.com/prod/servlet/press-release.pag?docid=51723407&ctxst=FcmCtx1&ctxht=FcmCtx2&ctxhl=FcmCtx3&ctxixpLink=FcmCtx3&ctxixpLabel=FcmCtx4) -- 2005 CIGS Photovoltaic Cells -- Technology Innovation of the Year

Contact

DayStar Technologies, Inc.
13 Corporate Drive
Halfmoon, NY 12065
phone: (518)383-4600; fax: (518)383-7900

email: info@daystartech.com (mailto:info@daystartech.com?subject=DayStar_featured_at_PESWiki.com)

Followup

July 2, 2008

"Thank you for your interest in DayStar. We appreciate the opportunity to talk about Daystar on your program, but it is not a good time for us now.

Please see our website (http://www.daystartech.com/cigs.cfm) for current information on our technology and focus. The information you have on your site about us is obsolete. We have moved away from foil approaches and are currently focused only on glass substrates as we ramp a 25MW facility in Newark CA. This allows us to get higher efficiency of glass substrates, a readily available market with sufficient volume to get the necessary scale, and lower costs using technology available to us now."

Regards, Bret Adams Sr Dir Sales and Marketing

Related Technologies

• SA thin film solar eclipses others - South African solar panels consist of a thin layer approximately five microns thick (a human hair is 20 microns thick) of a unique metal alloy that converts light into energy at a fraction of the cost. The photo-responsive alloy can operate on virtually all flexible surfaces. Expected in market in 2007. (PESWiki)

• First CIGS thin-film panels shipped (http://media.cleantech.com/2214/nanosolar-starts-shipping-its-first-thin-film-solar-panels) - Nanosolar (http://www.nanosolar.com/) has started shipping thin-film solar panels, making it the first company to market copper indium gallium selenide, or CIGS, solar products. They are going to a solar power plant in Germany that will use Nanosolar's Utility Panel to drive the cost efficiency of solar electricity systems. (Cleantech; Dec. 18, 2007)

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• Directory:Solar

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