HelioVolt Corporation was chosen as the Overall Silver winner of the prestigious Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award, as well as the first-place winner in the Energy and Power category. The awards recognize the pioneering work of Dr. B.J. Stanbery for his novel FASST(TM) thin film manufacturing technology and underscore a year of growth for the company. Other recent technology and innovation accolades for HelioVolt include a Nanotech Briefs' Nano 50(TM) award, a Frost & Sullivan 2006 Innovation Award, and a finalist for Small Times' Best of Small Tech Business Leader award.
HelioVolt is gaining momentum with its proprietary manufacturing process FASST(TM) that produces photovoltaics at least ten times faster than thin-film competitors. Marking a paradigm shift in solar technology, HelioVolt's thin-film CIGS can be applied directly onto conventional construction materials including steel, architectural glass, and roofing materials creating power-generating buildings.
The key to HelioVolt's innovation lies in its unique ultra-rapid manufacturing process -- a process which delivers the superior materials performance of CIGS at dramatically reduced costs," said Arno Penzias, a Nobel Laureate and New Enterprise Associates Venture Partner. "In creating this process, HelioVolt has dramatically reduced a key market obstacle for thin film PV manufacturing, and paves the way for a wider range of ways in which we can tap into the enormous resource that solar energy can offer to all of us."
The company's process, based on semiconductor printing, is a low-cost, flexible manufacturing process for CIGS synthesis and is protected by both eight issued US patents and by global patents pending.
The details of the award may kindly be forwarded to my email id ie gautamkd@gmail.com
I also like to have the details of these award programme on renewable enregy so that we can also participate in the award programme.
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Gautam K Das
Energy Consultant
Posted by: Gautam K Das | March 21, 2007 at 03:45 AM