non-silicon

The process, which uses non-silicon alternatives like copper, selenium, indium and gallium, has been compared to how the Federal Reserve prints money.

The Media Consortium: Weekly Mulch: Solar Power Flares Up 2009

I'm interested in doing something similar - moving towards a non-silicon based communication medium.

Six Apart buys a fax machine - Anil Dash 2003

Undeterred rivals from HelioVolt to Nanosolar continue to espouse non-silicon copper indium gallium selenide CIGS panels that many industry experts continue to argue is cheaper to make.

unknown title 2011

Our third quarter gross margin trend reflect a significant reduction in our manufacturing costs of both silicon and non-silicon costs reflecting our continued confidence to market share gains and establish a newer market in the company reiterate its expectation for our total PV module shipments of between 1.75 gigawatts to 1.8 gigawatts for the full year 2011 representing an increase of 65.6% to 70.3% from 2011 of 2010.

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Undeterred rivals from HelioVolt to Nanosolar continue to espouse non-silicon copper indium gallium selenide CIGS panels that many industry experts continue to argue is cheaper to make.

Reuters: Press Release 2011

And for Terry, could you just comment, you said you are going to see a big drop in non-silicon cost, can you comment on what you see as a trend for external cell and wafer purchase prices in the next couple of quarters?

unknown title 2011

To update our non-silicon conversion costs starting an inflationary price pressure, let us start over a year ago, we are seeing increasing improvement in our purchasing price of key supply chain components.

unknown title 2011

With this favorable trend and the forward visibility in the second half, we are confident in our ability to lower our non-silicon costs per watt to $0.70 or below by the end of this year.

unknown title 2011

We are focusing on our efforts and the belief, we are still on track to reduce our overall non-silicon cost to decline to below $0.70 per watt by the end of the year driven by cost reduction of consumables, material supply chain optimization, technology driven cell efficiency improvements and the increasing manufacturing efficiency.

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Turning to our cost per watt, our in-house blended model and the multi non-silicon cost including depreciation, no change from previous quarter approximately $0.73.

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