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Date: 3/23/2010
To Our Valued Shareholders,
We are pleased to be sharing with you a brief update on the developmental initiatives that are bringing us closer to the commercialization of our proprietary cross-industry thin-film solar technology. Since our last e-newsletter outlining the successful engineering of a co-evaporation processing chamber and tool design, we've been continuing to execute in several areas of our previously announced work plan while we look towards delivery of the new co-evaporation chamber components and the start of assembly in the coming weeks.
On a separate note, there have been two fundamental aspects to the work we have been performing and reporting on that might help you better understand our efforts. I will briefly explain some of the core aspects.
Over the prior months I have mentioned the terms "process" or "process recipes" and "chamber designs" or "engineering designs" when offering updates to the progress and work efforts. Process recipes combine among other things; gases, evaporated metals, temperature, vacuum, and flow rates that are controlled in a processing chamber. These are the materials and operating conditions necessary to make high performance economical CIGS solar cells. The chamber design determines the effectiveness of how well your materials mix to form the desired solar cell layer, or series of layers. A process recipe that has previously proven to be able to produce a quality solar cell may not function or produce the desired performance if the equipment it is being used in is not able to meet the operating requirements of the recipe. This holds true in reverse as well when the recipe is flawed.
Prior to the release for fabrication of our new co-evaporation chamber design we spent months testing and analyzing the interactive relationship between processes and the designs of our systems. While fundamentally necessary, in many ways this work is similar to the portion of a bridge that is unseen yet used to support the balance of the work to build a stable bridge or a quality product. We anticipate that the end result of these efforts will produce a new breed of proprietary manufacturing technologies for the production of economical high performance CIGS solar cells
Our goal is to eliminate the challenges previously faced by the CIGS industry in efforts to scale co-evaporation processes, a method proven to deliver the best CIGS performance. Our plan is to keep the process area small, the quality high, and work to deliver better manufacturing techniques to mass produce individual CIGS solar cells. While we've made substantial progress to date our work continues and we are looking forward to the work that lays ahead as we begin to work with our production sized co-evaporation chamber and equipment.
To Our Valued Shareholders,
We are pleased to be sharing with you a brief update on the developmental initiatives that are bringing us closer to the commercialization of our proprietary cross-industry thin-film solar technology. Since our last e-newsletter outlining the successful engineering of a co-evaporation processing chamber and tool design, we've been continuing to execute in several areas of our previously announced work plan while we look towards delivery of the new co-evaporation chamber components and the start of assembly in the coming weeks.
On a separate note, there have been two fundamental aspects to the work we have been performing and reporting on that might help you better understand our efforts. I will briefly explain some of the core aspects.
Over the prior months I have mentioned the terms "process" or "process recipes" and "chamber designs" or "engineering designs" when offering updates to the progress and work efforts. Process recipes combine among other things; gases, evaporated metals, temperature, vacuum, and flow rates that are controlled in a processing chamber. These are the materials and operating conditions necessary to make high performance economical CIGS solar cells. The chamber design determines the effectiveness of how well your materials mix to form the desired solar cell layer, or series of layers. A process recipe that has previously proven to be able to produce a quality solar cell may not function or produce the desired performance if the equipment it is being used in is not able to meet the operating requirements of the recipe. This holds true in reverse as well when the recipe is flawed.
Prior to the release for fabrication of our new co-evaporation chamber design we spent months testing and analyzing the interactive relationship between processes and the designs of our systems. While fundamentally necessary, in many ways this work is similar to the portion of a bridge that is unseen yet used to support the balance of the work to build a stable bridge or a quality product. We anticipate that the end result of these efforts will produce a new breed of proprietary manufacturing technologies for the production of economical high performance CIGS solar cells
Our goal is to eliminate the challenges previously faced by the CIGS industry in efforts to scale co-evaporation processes, a method proven to deliver the best CIGS performance. Our plan is to keep the process area small, the quality high, and work to deliver better manufacturing techniques to mass produce individual CIGS solar cells. While we've made substantial progress to date our work continues and we are looking forward to the work that lays ahead as we begin to work with our production sized co-evaporation chamber and equipment.
