Nanosolar has completed a 1-megawatt, ground-mounted solar panel installation at a military base in California. The company’s management are the inventors of a solar technology that prints metallic nanoparticle inks on huge rolls of aluminum foil. The printing process is not dissimilar to silk-screening as it coats aluminum foil with a proprietary ink made of copper, indium, gallium, and selenium (CIGS). This process avoids the vacuum deposition that has been characteristic of many thin-film implementations …
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