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NEWS ARTICLE: Continuous Growth - Solaicx commercializes
innovative monocrystalline ingot process
PHOTON
International
Publication Date: 02/07
Quote: "After starting out with much fanfare
a few years ago, PV pioneer
Bill Yerkes' monocrystalline wafer company Solaicx had
been eerily quiet of late. But stealthily, Solaicx has
been delivering wafers to an unnamed partner for the
past year. By the end of 2007, the Santa Clara, California-headquartered
company plans to install 12 full-scale continuous growth
Czochralski furnaces capable of producing 48 MW at a
new plant in Portland, Oregon...Solaicx co-founder and
vice president John Sedgwick would only say that its
primary advantages are a substantial leap in pull speed,
a reduction in cycle time by sharing set-up and cool
down over multiple ingots, lower labor requirements,
and higher ingot quality. 'A conventional batch grower
can produce roughly 0.8 MW per year. Ours has the potential
for 4 to 5 MW per year.'...Solaicx could be part of
an American solar renaissance."
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