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Article: China: CSP to Acquire ThinSilicon as Part of Expansion Drive.
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- November 11, 2009
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Byline: deepak03
China Solar Power Ltd., which manufactures thin-film amorphous silicon (a-Si) photovoltaic modules, said it has purchased ThinSilicon Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.), a developer of thin-film manufacturing process technology.
ThinSilicon founded in 2007 by three materials scientists who met while studying for their doctorates at Stanford University develops single- and tandem-junction a-Si PV module manufacturing process technology. The company said it recently achieved a tandem-junction cell efficiency >12.5%, or ~9% at the G5 module level.
Jason Stephens, a co-founder and principal scientist of ThinSilicon, said being part of ...