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Global Solar Technology Issue 6.2 – March/April 2013

• Pressing the reset button
• Reliable and ensured quality: You won’t mind  a little extra, will you?
• Solar technology for the fast growing global  sun belt
• Semiconductors to show the way to solar PV  recovery
• And more!

• Solar demand in Asia set to soar in 2013
• Smart power management during islanding condition
• Solar cell therapy: Transforming second-rate goods into first-class products
• Interview—Eaton’s Cooper Bussmann offers new combiner box range designed specifically for the Indian market
• And more!

Global Solar Technology Issue 6.1 – January/February 2013

• Pressing the reset button
• Li-ion energy storage for distributed energy sources
• Smart power management during islanding condition
• In Haiti, solar is not only about saving money—it’s about saving lives
• And more!

Global Solar Technology issue 5.3 – August/September 2012

• All attention towards South East Asia!– Usha Prasad
• Success Story – Morgan Solar:
• Winning the battle of energy savings
• Will PV shine again in 2012?
• And more!

Global Solar Technology Issue 5.7 – September/October 2012

• The role of cell encapsulant in PV module power  output differences
• Machine manufacturing sector continues to rely on photovoltaics
• Costs rapidly falling—Photovoltaics taking big steps towards competitiveness
• Interview with Georgi Jossifov and Volker Spies, Otto Chemie
• And more!

Global Solar Technology Issue 5.5 – July2012

• CIGS: The Way to Cut Costs per Watt
• Novel adhesion methods for solar cell assemblies
• The role of cell encapsulant in PV module power output differences measured at the production and installation site
• Interview with SiG Solar's Jan-Christian Schröder and Claudius Hardt
• And more!

Global Solar Technology Issue 5.3 – May/June 2012

• SNEC defies the weaknesses in the solar market - Trevor Galbraith
• Manufacturing Solar Photovoltaic Products in the United States - Part 2 of a two-part series
• Winning the battle of energy savings
• Will PV shine again in 2012?
• And more!

Global Solar Technology issue 5.2 – March/April 2012

• The Solar PV Industry – Moving On - Alan Rae
• Simple Testing to Evaluate Tabbing Ribbon Coating Alloys, Fluxes, and Cell Mettalizations!
• Manufacturing Solar Photovoltaic Products in the United States Part 1 of a two-part series!
• Sujana Energy brings clean and innovative use of electricity to consumers!
• And more!

Global Solar Technology issue 5.1 – January/February 2012

• Goodbye 2011, hello 2012!- Alan Rae
• The future of the solar junction box: Intelligent and modular?
• Increasing performance in anti-reflective coatings
• COP 17—What does it mean for Solar PV? A perspective from Noemie Bourdin of Upsolar
• And more!

Global Solar Technology issue 4.10 – November/December 2011

• Ferro conductive paste developments in context
• Efficiency and yield improvements with fab-wide process management software
• Installability, reliability and maintainability
• Electrical insulation and heat dissipation materials for improving solar power inverter efficiencies
• And more!

Global Solar Technology issue 4.9 – October 2011

• Growing markets...but dropping margins in solar PV
• "Green" ballasted module mounting systems for flat roofs
• Putting your solar shades on...the roof?
• Finding an attractive niche in a challenging supply chain
• And more!

Global Solar Technology issue 4.8 – September 2011

• The need for speed
• Cost reduction with high-performance conductive adhesives for cell interconnects
• Optimizing vacuum generation in CIGS solar processes
• Solar becomes affordable in community solar garden
• And more!

Global Solar Technology issue 4.7 – July/August 2011

• Concentrated solar thermal—beyond the solar field
• High-speed laser processing in thin-film module manufacturing
• Thermal oxidation in crystalline solar cell metalization
• Reducing module cost by trimming non-cell costs
• And more!

Global Solar Technology issue 4.6 – June 2011

• Thin film silicon technology
• The key to 'printing' CIGS
• Solar thermal parabolic trough economics
• Structural adhesives and the solar industry
• Market murky on FiT cuts
• Streamlining the legal aspects of solar PV installation

Global Solar Technology issue 4.5 – May 2011

• Canada's largest solar roof installation
• Company profile: OSP
• Microinverter systems with integrated benefits for panel manufacturers, installers and users
• Two recent initiatives making solar PV more user friendly
• Future photovoltaic modules require innovatively designed junction boxes
• Filling a vacuum in Welland, Ontario
• Lamination—no problem for Burkle

Global Solar Technology issue 4.4 – April 2011

• Third-party supervision of the installation of photovoltaic solar power plant
  Ernst Bauer, SGS Germany GmbH
• Organic photovoltaics—closing in on commercial requirements with tandem cells
  Jan Provoost and David Cheyns, imec
• A manufacturer’s perspective on five decades of photovoltaics: Where to now?
  Dr. Srinivasamohan “Mohan” Narayanan, Hanwha SolarOne

Global Solar Technology South East Asia - Summer 2011 (issue #2.2)

• Maximizing cost-effectiveness in solar module manufacturing
• Powering a sustainable future
• Third-party supervision of the installation of photovoltaic solar power plants
• Advanced wire sawing technology for solar photovoltaic cells
• Advances in pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes improve bus bar technology
• And more!

Global Solar Technology issue 4.3 – March 2011

• Advances in pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes improve bus bar technology for solar
  manufacturers
  Brent Ekiss, Fabrico
• Powering a sustainable future
  Jef Poortmans, imec
• Advanced wire sawing technology for solar photovoltaic cells
  Romain Beau de Lomenie, Applied Materials

Global Solar Technology South East Asia - Spring 2011 (issue #2.1)

• High reliability of conductive adhesives for thin-film interconnects
• Fabrication of low-cost flexible solar cells
• Evaluation of sealants used in PV module manufacture
• Financing renewable energy projects

Global Solar Technology issue 4.2 – February 2011

• An evaluation of sealants used in photovoltaic (PV) module manufacture by Jasbir Bath, Mike Moreau, Martin Gershenson, Cathy He, Yinbai Li and Miaosheng Zheng
• Maximizing cost–effectiveness in solar module manufacturing by Geoffrey King
  
• Ultrasonic spray coating of nanoparticles by Joseph Riemer
  

Global Solar Technology issue 4.1 – January 2011

• Fabrication of low cost flexible solar cells using solution–based coating techniques by Joseph Weiss, Peter Kariuki, et al
• High reliability of conductive adhesives for thin–film interconnects by Rich Wells and Mark Francis
  
• Lightweight PV module materials for cost efficiency and performance by Julia DiCorleto
  

Global Solar Technology issue 3.10 – November/December 2010

• Helping cost–competitive solar power materialize by E. Todd Williams
• SMT challenges in alternative energy by Alan Rae
  
• Insulation plays a critical role in solar panel manufacturing by Rick Traver
  

Global Solar Technology issue 3.9 – October 2010

• Inkjet fabrication of shallow emitters in silicon solar cells by E. Tormey, S. Prokopiak, O. Khaselev, M. Marczi, R. Raut and B.
  Singh, Cookson Electronics
• Glass industry focuses on the sun – A special report from solarpeq
• Solar PV technologies and opportunities for local businesses by Alan Rae

Global Solar Technology issue 3.8 – September 2010

• How silver paste can improve silicon solar cell performance/cost ratio by Dr. Weiming Zhang, Heraeus Materials Technology LLC
• Gas abatement strategies for green manufacturing by Stewart Davidson, Edwards
• Developing robust supply chains for alternative energy by Jim McElroy and Robert Pfahl, iNEMI

Global Solar Technology issue 3.7 – July/August 2010

• Increasing the efficiency of solar panel production, test and inspection processes by Jason Goerges, ACS Motion Control
• Measuring power output of solar cells using standard test equipment by Bob Zollo, Agilent Technologies Inc.
• The economic manufacturing of semi–transparent BIP modules by Jürg Zahnd and Ronald F.M. Lange, 3S Swiss Solar Systems AG,

Global Solar Technology issue 3.6 – June 2010

• Increasing the efficiency of solar panel production, test and inspection processes by Jason Goerges, ACS Motion Control
• Measuring power output of solar cells using standard test equipment by Bob Zollo, Agilent Technologies Inc.
• The economic manufacturing of semi–transparent BIP modules by Jürg Zahnd and Ronald F.M. Lange, 3S Swiss Solar Systems AG,

Global Solar Technology issue 3.5 – May 2010

• A practical guide for improving crystalline solar cell efficiencies
  through firing process optimization by Bjorn Dahle, KIC
• Smart packages for CPV cell devices by Andy Longford, consultant, and Domenic Federici, Interplex
  Engineered Products
• Achieving thermal uniformity in photovoltaic applications by Jake Lindley, Watlow

Global Solar Technology issue 3.4 –April 2010

• New survey outlines challenges and opportunities for CPV by Jim Handy, Objective Analysis; Terry Peterson, solar power consultant; Obadiah Bartholomy, SMUD; Travis Coleman, EPRI
• Structural adhesives: a bonding alternative for solar panels by Ian Quarmby and Nicole Wood, LORD Corporation and Kimberly Kayler, Constructive Communication
• Does the solar industry need high purity performance chemicals? by Scott Schumacher, Peak Sun Silicon

Global Solar Technology issue 3.3 – March 2010

• Advanced screen printable thin film PV silver conductor compositions by Jay R. Dorfman, DuPont Microcircuit Materials and Vince Arancio, DuPont (UK) Ltd
• Spray coating for fabricating polymer–based organic solar cells by Claudio Girotto and Jan Genoe, IMEC
• Reducing encapsulation cycle time in PV module production by Yun Luo and Ronald F.M. Lange, 3S Swiss Solar Systems and José Ignacio Fidalgo Martínez, Specialized Technology Resources España S.A.

Global Solar Technology issue 3.2 – February 2010

• Solar cells on ultra–thin crystalline silicon by Robert Mertens, Ph.D., IMEC & K.U.Leuven
• ‘Printing’ PV electrodes onto flexible substrates by Mark David Miller, Extrusion Dies Industries, LLC
• How Sanmina–SCI determined its alternative energies strategy by Sundar M. Kamath, Ph.D., Sanmina–SCI Corp.