1366 Technologies and Hanwha Q Cells have formed a strategic partnership aimed at taking the Massachusetts-based start up's direct-wafer technology from the lab and into the fab, the companies announced today. "The first part of this is an R&D partnership, but we absolutely have the intention that this becomes commercial in phase two," Frank van Mierlo, chief executive of 1366 Technologies, told pv magazine. As part of the first phase, 1366 Technologies this week installed three "gleaming new" direct-wafer furnaces for manufacturing multicrystalline wafers at its research and development facility in Bedford, Massachusetts, said Van Mierlo. This latest generation of the company's ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...