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Daystar Technologies' unique metal foil design is not vulnerable to silicon shortages. Striving to "make free energy affordable", production of this thin film design is being ramped up to 20 MW per year.

Photovoltaic Foilâ„¢ is a unique combination of Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide (CIGS) technology solar cells placed on flexible specialty metal foils. Unlike traditional solar cells which are brittle and require rigid, heavy module packaging to protect the cells from the environment, DayStar's CIGS-based Photovoltaic Foilâ„¢ is very lightweight, flexible and robust.

Official Website

• http://www.daystartech.com/ - DayStar strives to “Make Free Energy Affordableâ„¢â€? by developing photovoltaic products that remove materials and manufacturing barriers currently limiting widespread use. DayStar’s Vision Statement, “Enabling Affordable Electricity from the Sunâ„¢," 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) - LightFoilâ„¢, TerraFoilâ„¢ (http://www.daystartech.com/terrafoil.cfm)

Thin Film

DayStar’s TerraFoil(TM) is a combination of Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide (CIGS) technology solar cells placed on flexible 1-5 mil stainless steel foil.

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.

Roll-to-Roll manufacturing is considered an essential manufacturing methodology for the highest throughput at the lowest cost.

Stage of Development

Production of this thin film 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)

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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