Howard Branz

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  www.technologyreview.com/Energy/19696/ - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 11/21/2007    Last Visited: 11/21/2007  

  This can make a huge difference to the overall cost of producing solar cells, says Howard Branz, principal scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's National Center for Photovoltaics, in Golden, CO."About 20 to 30 percent of the cost of a solar-cell module is in the cost of the raw silicon," he says.
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  Spherical solar cells were originally proposed by Texas Instruments about 30 years ago, says Branz.
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  "Effectively, these are mini-concentrators," says Branz.

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  www.technologyreview.com/energy/21467/ - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/6/2008    Last Visited: 10/6/2008  

  "This is a nice start at using silicon wafers more efficiently," says Howard Branz, principal scientist in the silicon materials and devices group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in Golden, CO.With their transfer-printing approach, says Branz, Rogers and his group have for the first time demonstrated how such thin cells could be manufactured on large areas.

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  Published on: 11/22/2007    Last Visited: 11/22/2007  

  This can make a huge difference to the overall cost of producing solar cells, says Howard Branz, principal scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's National Center for Photovoltaics, in Golden, CO."About 20 to 30 percent of the cost of a solar-cell module is in the cost of the raw silicon," he says.

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  Howard Branz, Ph.D., NREL

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  This can make a huge difference to the overall cost of producing solar cells, says Howard Branz, principal scientist at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory's National Center for Photovoltaics, in Golden, CO."About 20 to 30 percent of the cost of a solar-cell module is in the cost of the raw silicon," he says.
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  Spherical solar cells were originally proposed by Texas Instruments about 30 years ago, says Branz.
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  "Effectively, these are mini-concentrators," says Branz.

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  www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/19464/ - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/4/2007    Last Visited: 10/4/2007  

  "Just by moving huge pieces of sheet glass, you get big economies of scale," says Howard Branz, principal scientist and a research supervisor for silicon materials and devices at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in Golden, CO.
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  "There's no shortage of the precursors to amorphous silicon, and there probably never will be," Branz says.

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  www.nano.org.uk/news/oct2007/latest1072.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/2/2007    Last Visited: 5/29/2008  

  "Just by moving huge pieces of sheet glass, you get big economies of scale," says Howard Branz, principal scientist and a research supervisor for silicon materials and devices at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in Golden, CO.
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  "There's no shortage of the precursors to amorphous silicon, and there probably never will be," Branz says.
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  "There's significant potential for reducing costs," acknowledges Branz.But he says that Applied Materials' customers will face stiff competition from other technologies."Amorphous silicon's efficiencies have to get higher if it's going to compete in a big way," he says.

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  Howard Branz principal scientist in the silicon materials and devices group at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, in Golden, CO. said, "This is a nice start at using silicon wafers more efficiently."
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  The efficiency issue is actually quite good, but some including Branz, point out that to really affect the market, efficiency needs to get to 15%.

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  Howard Branz, Ph.D. | NREL

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  Howard Branz
  
  NREL

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