There are fundamentally two ways to generate electricity. The first is based on electromagnetic induction, which remains the ...

Silicon spin qubits could soon help unlock the next stage of quantum computing. For decades, scientists have tried to harness the power of quantum mechanics to perform calculations beyond the ...

Production of wafers from silicon ingots (both multi- and monocrystalline) generates much silicon loss in the form of small particles commonly called kerf. It is assumed that 35%–40% of the incoming ...

Metallurgical grade silicon was melted and directionally solidified in transient conditions by extracting heat from the base of a cylindrical ingot and inserting heat at the ingot top. A heat-transfer ...

REC Silicon’s polysilicon plant closure would also thwart Hanwha Group’s ambitious plan to build a complete photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing value chain in the US, spanning polysilicon, ingot, wafer, ...

Sino-American Silicon Products (SAS) will expand annual production capacity for solar-grade crystalline silicon ingots and wafers from 900MWp and 850MWp respectively in 2014 to 1.1GWp ...

Silicon wafers, for instance, are used in semiconductor devices, solar cells, LEDs, communication systems and the sensors in smartphones and medical imaging. Purified silica can also be converted to ...

The Qcells’ plant would be the largest silicon ingot and wafer plant ever built in the U.S. while also producing cells and completed solar panels, according to DOE. The Energy Department on ...

Most of the “solar grade” polysilicon used in solar panel production takes silicon crystals extracted from mined quartzite, transforming them into a purified form of silicon that generates ...