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2nd article talks about the solar antennas and improving efficiency. This article is a good summary of the solar arena.
FYI:
http://www.solarfeeds.com/the-green-light-distrikt-/14365-flexible-solar-awesome-but-not-practical?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+solarfeed+%28Solar+Feeds%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail
Flexible Solar: Awesome, But Not Practical.Wednesday, 22 September 2010 The Green Light Distrikt .One contract I’m working on wanted me to develop “flexible” solar panels. When I asked what qualities are important to the project, none of them included mechanical flexibility. In finding a design solution for this customer, I learned that flexibility is an attribute people like the thought of, but may not really need.
Flexible solar panels are like the toy at the bottom of a cereal box. I get excited about the thought of playing with them. I imagine bending, rolling and unrolling them, showing them to my friends, or even throwing them over my shoulder like a cape and running around while I power batteries. The opportunities are truly limitless.
But then I look at the price and decide to reach for the generic brand corn flakes solar panel. There is no toy in this box. In fact, there isn’t even a box. It’s just cheap, sometimes energy dense, and usually made in China. Dreams smashed.
Why was I attracted to the flexible panel in the first place?
In all of my encounters in the solar business, the metrics that matter for a solar panel are:
1.Cost—cost of the panel, out of pocket expense?
2.Weight—how portable is it? How easy is it to install?
3.Durability—how rugged is it in the field? Can I attach it to a jack-hammer?
4.Lifetime—what’s the payback period? NPV? IRR?
5.Efficiency—coupled with cost & area to get cost/watt
(other metrics are permutations of the 5 listed above).
It seems that flexibility implies a combination of a few nice attributes: cost, weight, durability. But in reality, no markets ask for this complete set. Take a look at the chart above. Here are the major markets for solar:
1. Utility—projects are financed on NPV and ROI basis. Technology agnostic. Cost per watt driven unless area (land) constrained, which is rare.
2. Residential—similar to 1 but with more concern for upfront cost & out of pocket expense, may be area constrained on smaller rooftops.
3. Commercial—similar to 1 & 2 with niche in BIPV, where aesthetic value may be valued over returns. May be area-constrained on smaller rooftops.
4. Portable power—cars, boats, bikes, efficiency, W/kg, W/area, often area constrained and concerned with durability. Will pay premium for substitution of heavy batteries.
5. Personal power—chargers, bags, efficiency, mechanical toughness, will pay premium to enable usage of electronic devices off-grid. Highly area constrained.
However, there are very few applications where all of these attributes are necessary. Rooftops are designed to withstand the weight of a traditional glass panel, while people buying portable laptop chargers don’t really care about their generated cost per watt. They just want to use their laptop on a jobsite in rural Africa (yes we’re always price sensitive, but not as much as other markets).
“Yes but installation costs are lower when you can just roll them on the roof” you may say?
I would argue that cost savings comes from eliminating racking systems, not the act of rolling. Flat, rigid, lightweight panels can be laid out in the same way at very similar cost. The bottom line is that a rollable form-factor offers a low value-add.
What’s the opportunity?
There’s a disconnect between what markets want and manufacturers deliver. We’re seeing low-efficiency, flexible panels going into BIPV markets (where cost still matters along with aesthetic), and portable/personal power markets (where efficiency matters most).
These thin film efficiencies are increasing (see Nanosolar, Unisolar, & Global Solar), but panel lifetimes will need to be proven before financiers will risk 20 year returns on a technology with little value-add over Kyocera or Sharp’s Silicon or First Solar’s CdTe panels.
What this leaves is an opportunity for efficiency & cost per watt leaders to come up with clever packaging techniques to make their panels lighter and foldable so they can penetrate portable and personal power markets.
I look forward to sharing my solutions to this space and the status of the project once it is publicly available.
2nd article
http://www.solarfeeds.com/renewable/14363-glimpsing-the-future-of-solar-?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+solarfeed+%28Solar+Feeds%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail
Glimpsing the Future of Solar .Wednesday, 22 September 2010 ReNEWable .One thing I like about being a science writer, and about writing a book about renewable energy, is that I get to talk with (and learn from) some of the smartest people on the planet.
For example, this morning I spoke with Michael Strano, an associate professor of chemical engineering at MIT. After a twenty minute phone call, I came away with nothing less than a glimpse into the future of solar energy.
Strano works with carbon nanotubes–tiny, microns-wide structures that can channel atomic and subatomic particles in ways that have all sorts of industrial and technological applications. I was interested in Strano’s work on using carbon nanotubes to enhance the absorptive power and hence efficiency of solar cells. The science is complex, but in a nutshell in involves using carbon nanotubes as antenna or funnels to attract and channel sunlight in concentrated form onto the semiconducting surface of a solar cell.
The implications of this research are far reaching. One of the holy grails of solar PV research is figuring out ways to make solar cells more powerful and efficient without making them more expensive. Some solutions involve using mirrors to concentrate sunlight onto PV panels or boilers. Strano’s method does essentially the same thing, only without the need for expensive and delicate mirrors.
Carbon nanotubes are relatively easy and inexpensive to make. Large companies like Bayer are not manufacturing them in bulk for all sorts of commercial purposes. PV cells enhanced with carbon nanotubes are still a ways off, but if what Strano was telling me is accurate, they’re coming. And they very might might blaze an entirely new path in solar PV development.
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What if Jabbour finds a way to reach the theoretical efficiency for the solar cells and then finds a way to channel the sunlight in a concentrated form? How high does the efficiency go?
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Could Solterra help Sharp get back on top?
http://www.solarfeeds.com/greentech-media/14345-sharp-gobbles-up-recurrent-energy-for-305m?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+solarfeed+%28Solar+Feeds%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail
Sharp Gobbles Up Recurrent Energy for $305M.Tuesday, 21 September 2010 Greentech Media .Sharp today announced it would buy Recurrent Energy, the large solar developer, for $305 million.
Recurrent, which had been shopping itself around since August. will operate as a subsidiary and keep the Recurrent name. Recurrent CEO Arno Harris will continue to run the group.
The deal will effectively bring together two companies in need of strong allies. Sharp is one of the largest and historically strongest solar module makers in the world and Recurrent is one of the largest independent solar power project developers. With Recurrent, Sharp has a group that can bid on solar power projects, and then build them with Sharp modules. Recurrent has a 2 gigawatt product pipeline: that could soak up a lot of modules.
There is no obligation on the part of Recurrent to buy Sharp modules and Recurrent is free to pick the best technology for the job, but one can anticipate the two working together quite a bit. Sharp modules and other high-end modules from companies like Suntech and BP Solar can be quite similar in terms of price and performance: the biggest difference arguably is the name on the box.
First Solar toppled Sharp from the top spot in the solar market in large part by acting as its own developer.
Recurrent, meanwhile, has found itself being forced to bid on projects against developers like First Solar and SunPower who happen to have their own module making capabilties. With Sharp as a parent, Recurrent won't have to worry about access to capital, price gouging or the rare conflicts of interest.
Lots of opportunities are in the making for QTMM and none of it is unrealistic.
Thanks, Just fired off an E-mail to Carol from business week that wrote the Desertec article suggesting in three months she do a followup looking at QMC/Solterra specifically.
Good heads up about MEMS - soon as I find out what MEMS stands for I'll tailor a piece.
Bill
I love good news. Mr Ando provided a little insight: The Jetro business presentations were recieved very well earlier this month. Here is a picture of the Booth they had and some of the agenda:
We attended N-EXPO/KANSAI’10 exhibition (9/1 – 9/3) in Osaka. This was an invitation program by JETRO and all cost such as booth, airfare, accommodation for its participation were free of charge. (see attached booth pictures)
No virus threat detectedFile: booth01.JPGDownload File You'll have to E-mail me at ih8aloss@yahoo.com if you want the picture.
As for business, JETRO pre-arranged numerous meetings with potential partners and customers for Solterra, and all meetings were quite productive for us to see great potential in Japan market.
There were three categorized groups we had during the show:
(i) End user: who may purchase our QD or Solar cell
(ii) R&D partner: who shows interest in having joint R&D activities
(iii) Distribution company: who has channel throughout industry or has customers for QD
Each company showed their great interest in our technology and promising future product(s).
As of today, Solterra is in discussion with some of them for allowing them to understand our technology further.
With kind regards,
Toshi Ando
This coupled with Dr. Bob's comment that solar will be a small part of the overall picture is very encouraging for me. I believed the TQD's would take off first even though the original thought was the mass production of the cells would be to support solar cell production. With the many posts on this board of possible uses of the QD's it seems every day it's expanding. Just the growth alone from Universities that are using the TQD's to test and prove their theories is a shoe in for future commercialized products with TQD's. I LOVE IT.
GLTA
That connect is pumping? Please don't use SSOL in with any QTMM discussion, The stock has OVER A BILLION shares, is being pumped and here is why "Please be advised that OxofWallstreet.com has been paid $800,000.00 by Waty International, LTD. to perform promotional and advertising services for a one month profile of Sunvalley Solar Inc., which services include the issuance of this release and the other opinions that we release concerning SSOL."
They generated gross revenues of $2,071,167 during the six months ended June 30, 2010 up from the $1,598,579 during the six months ended June 30, 2009! The other nine reasons to buy in the article were pretty much generalities for the solar industry. If you followed your philospohy you already dumped most of what you had. Even though QTMM has no revenue now you know in one day of sales from the TQD's if price is a miniscule $50 a gram QTMM clears 5 mill in one day. Just to put it in perspective here is a link to what Evident charges for a 20 milligram vial of QD's if they had them available: http://www.evidenttech.com/products/evidots.html
DockZef,
Liked your thinking and the article about photon antennas could have some merit in the future with the TQD. The philosophy works for me as our site is protected in the same way from lightning by gathering the ions being generated from a storm and dissipating them before they can do harm to transformers and power lines as a lightning stike. The device looks like an umbrella with a lot of spikes. But it works great. I don't see why nanoantennas collecting photons wouldn't work the same way. Channeling photons to where you can have them doing the most to generate MEG's.
D5 what did I miss that ruffled your feathers? I give you two or three days and those little avator or what ever they are are entertaining us again, hope so anyways. Chess and Crunch good posts.
Well I got to say I was bummed when Ken posted DR. Bob's response, but I would rather have honesty than be fed a pile of lies. I wrote an article in January called OVER ENTHUSIASTIC JUBILANCE courtesy of QMC/Solterra!
http://solterra1.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/is-it-over-enthusiastic-jubilance-about-qmcsolterra/
Knowing what I know now about progress and developments in the industry I guess I got ahead of myself with expectations and forget as a startup things never go as planned or in the time frame you like them to and most of it is out of your control. Dr. Bob just reinforced what was already known. So I guess I'll start ramping up for the next round because one of these days it's not going to be a false start and the race will commence with the finish line well past the horizon of site as I can see it. I too was surprised about South America, not unrealistic for a factory there, cheap labor closer to the Cd Source? Will have to check into that.
I think PV is right, post 10k, so early November for releases. Unfortunately I think Barrymore is going to be right with a slightly lower trend until the news. Ads have pretty much stopped running because Yahoo has now taken over microsoft adcenter ads and they suspended my ads. We were getting over 3000 views a month with 1-2% becoming investors. We had 2 views yesterday for the only ad still running. Sorry, I tried but until the company puts out press releases the share volume for now is all by word of mouth. So talk it up amongst your friends, those getting in now are in my opinion getting the deal of a life time. But make sure to tell them to invest some time doing their own DD before they invest their money.
GLTA
Free,
Nada,zip,zilch,"0". I suspect they may not want to be spreading them selves too thin at this point and did put it aside. You saw what was written, it was an easy response so with everything they are getting ready to release I suspect it wasn't a priority for them.
I think you're ahead of the curve on this.
Bill
Guys,
You won't believe it but driving to my kids house Saturday my wife actually asked about the company and even said if the stock went up to $100 what are you planning to do? I was floored!!!!!!! I quickly reminded her it was only .09 cents and told here if it hit $1.20 I would sell a few shares to pay off some bills. But only post split I would do it, otherwise I would hold out for $8 a share before selling any to eliminate any and all other bills. My ultimate goal is to live off of the dividends in the future, but I really didn't want to sell any shares until the two companies broke into two seperate stocks. What a breath of fresh air that was! She never ever wanted to hear anything about the company activities before. There is hope for you guys if my wife can come around and it's not for a divorce over it.
Waiting for Tuesday to see if this quite period will come to an end. I sure hope so, they should have enough material now for two months of press releases, one each week minumum. PV could probably give them 4 or 5 months of ideas. Some could be and I remind you are made up by me:
Mass production of quantum dots makes many industrial commercialization projects possible
TQD's being produced in the 100 KGram range daily an industry first
Quantum Materials Corp launching it own web site
Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. completes necessary goals to list on the exchange under the symbol ????
Research facilities using TQD's in research yields future applications in ......
Roll to roll/ ink jet printing 300 M2 of solar cells for economical commercialization commencing
Efficiency hits 6% for PV Solar cells using TQD's
Gearing up for 1GW Solar Farms, what it took and what it takes
Japanese company commits to use TQD's for production of their display panels or some news from Toshi and Robinson.
These are some of the types of press releases they could do and are completely made up by me with no input other than what I think they could be.
GLTA
Nice find Crunch, Solterra Renewable Technolgies is mentioned in some of their other reports also. This extract just talks about QUANTUM DOTS in the industry: Thought it might give a little more perspective as to the potential use/market size:
This unique report assesses the huge opportunities for fine chemicals, printing, production equipment and electronics companies in the largest part of the emerging $300 billion printed electronics business - inorganic materials and composites. Semiconductors, dielectrics, conductors, light emitters etc for displays, photovoltaics, transistors and much more are covered. Company profiles and ten year forecasts are given.
Inorganic and Composite Printed Electronics 2010-2020
It is often argued that the inorganic options are interim, because the progress is coming to an end whereas organics are 'future proof'. Nothing could be further from the truth. For conductors with vastly better conductance and cost, for the best printed batteries, for quantum dot devices and for transistor semiconductors with ten times the mobility, look to the new inorganics. That is the emerging world of new nanoparticle metal and alloy inks that are magnitudes superior in cost, conductivity and stability, such as the flexible zinc oxide based transistor semiconductors working at ten times the frequency and with best stability and life, along with many other inorganic materials. Read the world's only report that pulls all this together in readable form.
This report critically compares the options, the trends and the emerging applications. It is the first in the world to comprehensively cover this exciting growth area. The emphasis is on technology basics, commercialisation and the key players
Free,
I'm no expert but I'll take a shot while I wait for some answers from those that should know.
"Radioactive Half-Life
The radioactive half-life for a given radioisotope is a measure of the tendency of the nucleus to "decay" or "disintegrate" and as such is based purely upon that probability. The tiny nuclear size compared to the atom and the enormity of the forces which act within it make it almost totally impervious to the outside world. The half-life is independent of the physical state (solid, liquid, gas), temperature, pressure, the chemical compound in which the nucleus finds itself, and essentially any other outside influence. It is independent of the chemistry of the atomic surface, and independent of the ordinary physical factors of the outside world. The only thing which can alter the half-life is direct nuclear interaction with a particle from outside, e.g., a high energy collision in an accelerator."
Assuming the energy can be absorbed by the TQD's and converted into electricity it is only a receiver. No energy is transmitted to the radioactive fuel source from the energy panel containing the TQD's. Changed it from solar panel to an "Energy Panel" more appropriate, thus the belief the "nuclear batteries" you call them are a huge potential source of almost unlimited power. There are a little over 100 Nukes in the US with spent fuel in storage.
The only reason I posted so much this past couple days is I have been home feeling under the weather. I could get use to not going to work. It was also very exciting with the news earlier Crunch found in the week. We need more of that word in the form of press releases, large distribution magazines, trade journals and TV coverage would help. I am attaching some of the solar stock charts that have some analysis of their debt, cash and P/E's. It'll give you an idea of the price variations of the PURE solar play stocks. As previously discussed the semiconductor TQD business alone would be more than the solar side. This will be a very exciting future for us.
http://www.solarfeeds.com/drduru/14115-solar-stock-rally-in-one-word-stealth?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+solarfeed+%28Solar+Feeds%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail
I did comment but they don't believe it so they deleted it. Their readers loss.
Have a safe holiday.
Bill
Crunch do you mean this one? It's still there but I wouldn't put it past them to wipe it out for that "silly" strong buy recommendation.
First of all, QMC loves the idea of PETE.
They're not in competition with PETE, but
could possibly use it on their IR TQD,
just like any other company with one could.
PETE is a Cesium coating and can go on
QMC QD, too. It might improve the efficiency.
Regarding the list of attributes the last
poster listed, QMC Tetrapod QD has those
capabilities or can make use of them in
conjunction with it's QD. I have no doubt.
The difference between QMC and other QD
companies is that QMC is now able to
produce a Tetrapod QD - a three dimensional
QD, one that because of its shape has
simply better properties, also, that it
can control the shape, size width of arms,
length, and can make them with other
metals and plastics, using a much less
toxic and much less expensive method of
production. That is the one patent that
QMC has. However, they also have the
control of the process of mass production
of QD and are gearing up to soon produce
100KG a day. There will soon be an unlimited
supply of QD at half the price of any other
company. Second, the conversion of these
QD is over 90 percent, and they are working
on better numbers right now, while other
companies can not come close to that level
of quality. Period. That is a fact, not
an opinion. If you disagree, you have not
read the patent claims. The funny thing is
Samsung is building a 5 billion dollar
AMOLED factory, and others are too, and they
could simply buy from QMC at a fraction of
that. And they will. Very Soon.
So my advice is to get off this silly board
and start divesting yourself of whatever stock
you own so you can buy QMC at the ridiculously
low price of .09 cents yesterday.
Best wishes,
Puravida19
Sentiment : Strong Buy
At .09cents you better do your DD to come to your own conclusion and pretty fast, procrastination could be pretty costly in the future. GLTA
For all of you that have not been to the Tempe office at Research Park in ASU, here is a comment from one of the recent visitors:
Bill, Thank you for answering my questions and I greatly appriciate all the information. I went on an exploratory mission today and attempted to walk into the Tempe location listed in the google paper. It is not just a place you walk into off the street. DOD and DARPA funding in all of the concerns. The guard was really nice Vietnam Vet who told me of clean and wet rooms and high end PHD's throughout. Also mentioned the high end visitors that pop in from time to time that wear stars on their shoulders. Needless to say I will visit with an appointment next time and I am sure will be remembered from this visit. The guard and I both had great Uncles from Russian. His Uncle worked for Czar Nicholas and purchased all his horses. My Great Uncle was a very young man who left by way of China and lost his parents in the Revolution. In my opinion we are on the cusp of a paradigm shift and a flood of useful new tools to work with to improve the space and environment that we live in. Energy, communications, life science, education, and many more fields will morph into a new view with AI stepping up the rate of change to a whole new level. Great time to be here on Earth.
FYI AI = artificial intelligence
PV
For now you're going have to get a flat magnification screen and hold it out in front of you for that larger picture.
Not a problem, welcome to have you. EOM
Free,
You're a fn genius, it's just another energy state. It won't speed up the decay rate, the half life will remain the same but if you're generating static power from it, it will be for a very very long time. That alone is another waste heat recovery use business that could stand by it's own. The problem is the amount of money to get the NRC to review and approve after the copious amounts of testing. You can't fathom the paper work that would be involved with such an undertaking. But outside the US say in Saudi Arabia it would fit right in with their grand scheme of the energy world.
I saw the table only has a setting for 10, will you be serving?
Duke,
You're a local! My wife and I have a Christmas party every year, you're invited. Bob lives up the block from me a couple houses, I see him once in a blue moon, tell him I said Hi. Anyone else on the board interested in a QTMM Dec 22 or 23rd party is also welcome. I'll post a date when it's set.
Every buy is one less share available, nice volume, no movement go figure! Short count is around 40,000 shares, so it's no short activity, Most were buys today 391,675 vs 99,473 sells and ~80k unknown transactions. IMO MM's were letting go a buy at the lower price the past couple weeks after any sell. Great for those picking up at this level. The MM's are and I'm guessing trying to shake out more sellers by lowering the price so they can accumulate more shares themselves. Todays trades from IH:
http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=trades&symbol=QTMM
GLTA
OK I'm sure I wasn't alone - who had trouble going to sleep last night? Free - you're excluded, we don't want to know why you were up. My mind was racing of what it'll be like to be living a much more care free life. No pun intended, don't get offended Mom, we like Free. Got my CD ready, just need the stock to move on up. With all the excitement one significant issue got overlooked. With this statement, "Advances in chemistry and nanotechnology have also made it possible to manufacture quantum dots from different types of semiconductor nanocrystals easily and uniformly, avoiding the need for a clean room, a high-temperature process and ultrahigh-vacuum equipment". With just that one word "UNIFORMLY" QMC is the leader in Quantum Dot production. We posted early on that they had completed the proof phase with Access2flow of being able to mass produce the QD's. What wasn't proven until this word confirmed it was Access2flow was testing that the process would replicate exactly the length and width of the Tetrapod legs. That ensures fine tuning of the frequencies and being able to deliver exactly what the client orders. That for me was one of the possible downfalls to really commercialize TQD's in bulk. With that over and knowing that Dr. Wong was working on other recipes for Quantum Dots I got confirmation with the statement "possible to manufacture quantum dots from different types of semiconductor nanocrystals easily" that in the future we won't be talking just about CdSe. Now more doors open.
People are leery of this stock because of the saying, "If it's to good to be true, it probably is too good to be true" or something like that. Very few understand the technology which makes them even more shy and our grandiose dreams of being filthy rich have all been what you dream of, knowing it really won't happen but wishing it would. Some on this board are on their way to having made the wishing a reality, and others will drop by and move on thinking it's a pipe dream. I don't know how to convince them, other than we gave it a good shot, they'll eventually convert when financials are in, press releases, news and tv coverage start giving QTMM air time. But until that happens we have to be happy with what we have.
If you haven't invested do your DD, don't take my word for it. I'm still waiting for my gravy train to come in. TQDTQDTQD
GLTA
Looks great. Current info showing future plans and a rosy picture for future earnings. They acknowledged mass production of the TQD's and being able to print high speed. A 1GW solar farm at the end was just kind of a filler to end the article evenly on the page without changing the font. HAHA Those that didn't do their DD are going to be pretty disappointed in a couple years.
Nice find Crunch.
PV,
I believe a majority of the shareholders are of the buy and hold mind set. Some will sell a few but most will hold onto the majority of their shares. Without shares available the price can go only one way. There are millions of shares available for the right price, even some of yours.
GLTA
Bill
In the mean time:
I thought it was going to take 2 hours Crunch, you're too fast or I'm too slow - I'm too slow.
This is the kind of student Jabbour would love to have. In high school she took 2nd place in the NYS Science Fair for using quantum dots in a dye sensitive experiment that garnered an additional 5% performance improvement from conventional solar cells, THIS IS A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT!!! If she can figure a way I can’t wait to see what some of the brains who have this as their primary function in life like Jabbour can do to improve efficiency. Not to mention his new team at KAUST will probably have a couple of these brainyacks, so phase three won’t be far behind, 2-3 years?
I couldn’t find the science publication, one of my co-workers torn it out of his magazine and left it on my desk.
http://www.levittown.k12.ny.us/macarthur/news/2009-2010/story.asp?xml=macarthur_announces_2010_valedictorian_and_salutatorian.xml
Four generations of solar cells
First Generation – Silicon based Second Generation – Thin film technology
– High efficiency, high cost
– Commercialized
Second Generation – Thin film technology
– Moderate efficiency, low cost
– In the process of commercialization
Third Generation – Organic based Fourth Generation – Hybrid solar cells
– Theoretical efficiency very high, low cost
– Actual efficiency very low
– Still in research stage
Fourth Generation – Hybrid solar cells
HI PV,
You need to get the DRAGON voice recognition system to type your messages for as many as you do!
I'm not in the same camp for the Pharmaceutical/drug line of thought and Europe. I do agree they could license from QMC the Access2flow manufacturing process of TQDs. I think that's more of where they want to go. Pharmaceutical companies that would need the TQD product in large quantities will just "rent" the system from QMC. No facility, storage, shipping needed - pure profit. Though, I don't think that is any time soon. Use would be more in the research department now with small quantities, hope I'm wrong!
I think the SEC comment is about a US listing instead of overseas.
I was in the camp for an overseas listing when Phoenix Alliance was in the picture because it was supposedly easier to list. No SEC rules and regulation, quicker to get listed, less costly. Those that were then helping paint the picture for the future are no longer assisting. New players are involved now with different connections.
From the SEC site, I bolded what I thought was key:
The SEC oversees the key participants in the securities world, including securities exchanges, securities brokers and dealers, investment advisors, and mutual funds. Here the SEC is concerned primarily with promoting the disclosure of important market-related information, maintaining fair dealing, and protecting against fraud.
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The Division of Corporation Finance reviews documents that publicly-held companies are required to file with the Commission. The documents include:
registration statements for newly-offered securities;
annual and quarterly filings (Forms 10-K and 10-Q);
proxy materials sent to shareholders before an annual meeting;
annual reports to shareholders;
documents concerning tender offers (a tender offer is an offer to buy a large number of shares of a corporation, usually at a premium above the current market price); and
filings related to mergers and acquisitions.
These documents disclose information about the companies' financial condition and business practices to help investors make informed investment decisions. Through the Division's review process, the staff checks to see if publicly-held companies are meeting their disclosure requirements and seeks to improve the quality of the disclosure. To meet the SEC's requirements for disclosure, a company issuing securities or whose securities are publicly traded must make available all information, whether it is positive or negative, that might be relevant to an investor's decision to buy, sell, or hold the security.
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Where we go from here should be pretty enjoyable for the ones that have accumulated some ammo. I've been sitting on this time bomb waiting for it to explode a year and a half. Let the fireworks begin, soon!
GLTA
One more possibility to the article New Atom-Scale Products on Horizon: Breakthrough Discovery Enables Nanoscale Manipulation of Piezoelectric Effect - Not so far of a stretch, thinking outside the box medical applications could be huge - eradicating disease. If I remember correctly Dr. Glass said the CdSe QD was not a toxic concern when a coating is applied that renders it harmless in a couple hours. The stuff Royal Ramond Rife was doing in the 30's with resonance frequency to kill cancers, TB could possibly be in the future. Having the ability to control the specific frequency unique to the diseased cells so they self destruct would be monumental if proven true. According to Rife it was, American Medical Association put the kibosh on it when they realized what it would do to their profession. http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0geu_WWgH1IguUA1H1XNyoA?ei=UTF-8&p=royal%20rife&fr2=tab-web&fr=yfp-t-501
http://www.rense.com/health/rife.htm
"Long before Memorex made the "Shattering Glass" commercial, there was a man, Royal R. Rife, who was also aware that things vibrate. He also knew, just as the Memorex people learned, that a broadcast of the exact frequency of sound waves would shatter objects. In his case, however, he applied this knowledge not to shattering glass, but to conquering disease.
Rife thought, "If I have someone with, say, tuberculosis, and I discover the exact frequency at which the organism causing tuberculosis vibrates, then I should be able to make a transmitter to broadcast that exact frequency. If I"aim" my broadcaster at someone who has tuberculosis, I can destroy the organism inside that person and rid them of TB.""
Trying to catch up, before things take off.
GLTA
If it is the same Chancis it's old news now. Remember this guy shelled out a ton of his own money to get HAGUE off the ground. Without the initial investment from him and his party, 1.5 Million the company wouldn't be where it is today. So I would have to say what ever charges and finding were brought over 9+ years ago I TRUST managements decision and picks for who they TRUST to do business with. Besides, Chancis is the one that had to do the TRUSTING, he shelled out the $$$$ trusting what Steve and company said they were going to do, not knowing if it would come to fruition or all go down the toilet. It takes balls to make that bet so he should be rewarded as we all look forward to the companies growth.
Duke, you're going to have to put in a low bid that if you get filled we'll all be upset with. You'll have another week probably before summer vacation ends and wall street gets back to business. You definitely want to be in before a press release hits. From there if you're not in the game then it's going to cost you a few more $ to play. We are all looking forward to it costing those on the sideline a lot more in the future. GLTA
X27Ray,
The mass production piece of the multi stage project had to be successful or they wouldn't have moved into the final phase dealing with detailed specifics. Proof testing should wrap up sometime in the latter part of September is my guess.
I haven't posted as I have been busy, it's summer. I also have been banned from yahoo and google message boards for months. Posted several times but they get deleted immediately, and you thought PV was quick on the draw. Lee and Free you'll find they aren't to receptive to positive news or any optimism. It isn't even constructive criticism like Cowboy has provided. But he is right about patent issue, it is still pending as are tons of them. One thing I'll say is a lot of money is wasted on the big business of patents. I was able to get one for a garbage pale for recycling. Granted Sept. 29, 1992 #5,150,809 Adjustable Subdividable Multi-Compartment Refuse Container. What a waste of money and time. My company pursued the final phase, I was going to drop it but you can get a patent issued for anything I found out. All you need is a difference of some miniscule amount. For mine to be issued it came down to the hinge being different for the lid. I learned just produce the product worry about the details later. The first to market holds the leverage for the patent if there is a dispute over rights in the future. That's my take anyway, not worried about Rice, Dr. Wongs QD's are very unique and issue time for the patent takes forever.
Should get some excitement here in the next couple weeks, post Ramadan IMO for any Saudi news at least.
Going back to sleep being busy.
Barrymore,
I would suggest you don't hold your breath either. It isn't going to happen. They don't need you as much as you need them. They know the price will come with execution of the business plan. I agree we would all like to see this leaps and bounds above the current level but it is what it is for now and if you do have something to offer you're going to have to go through Richard Chancis. Like it or not it's your call, get on board or watch the train pull away without you.
Barry, Didn't really see that info as earth shattering, more of a confirmation of expectations based on JETRO , Robinson and Toshi. Hopefully it's related to funding and it's going to be an event in the past after this point. Maybe I'm off the mark and it's related more to product development only. Either way, as much as you may think they don't get it, they do. They aren't worried or thinking about the stock price. They know that will come around when they have the framework set. They are focused on building the infrastructure first and will pretty much let the investors take care of the stock price for now. They are working on the catalyst now and in due time present it. That's where you come in, it's then your job to get all your friends to take an interest and not jump and run. Remember RIMM, this one isn't your typical hit and run stock, you may want to re-evaluate the investment strategy for this one.
GLA
Spoke to Lauren today and aside from Steve being very busy since he hasn't returned any calls to several people it's progress in silence as usual. She did spill the beans unintentionally but not anything you can take to the bank, but it was for me very optimistic. During our talk she some how mentioned a partnership announcement. Something to that affect as my memory sucks for details but it was definitely related to a "partnership". That was music to my ears. Hopefully when we get the releases a couple weeks from now we'll get more on that slip.
Good news is Jabbour is at Kaust heading the solar division, Think about that, Dr. Bob just spent ~2 1/2 weeks over there and Dr Jabbour heads the Saudi University KAUST for their solar farm development plans. Dr. Bob has previously hob knobbed with the upper echelon elite and is no stranger to advancing technology applications to heads of state. Sound like there may be some pretty good story content that will make for interesting reading when the press releases come out. $ .10 a share before the type of press releases we are anticipating is a huge steal IMO. I just wish I could convince my wife we need to invest more but I've already pushed it to the limit and then some with her. Have to post periodically to prove I'm still alive.
It does boggle my mind that there isn't more interest in this company than there is. I guess most people aren't too interested in potential and maximizing an investment return and are more interested in the after it's proved sure bet. Some just won't touch a stock unless it's over a certain price. I know most of the institutional investors will be getting involved when it's in the $5 range and has a track record to show their portfolio investors. It's not everyday a company like this comes along, although if you listened to the pennystock promoters they have one every other day. Unfortunately if you track their hot sure bet tip you'll find most are down after their promotion. For those that do their own due diligence and spend hours researching the applications, technology and company employees you'll find We are no normal startup company. Thank god, allah, buddah - who every you want that our management doesn't want to give the farm away using venture capitalists. I recently found out that even though they are a quick source of funding to get you going, their interest is mainly to use you as a writeoff. QMC/Solterra is not intending to be a flash in the pan. They will continue to look for investors, partners and if you know of anyone with a large chunk of money (Barrymore)tell them to call Richard Chancis (Investor Relations & Business Development)you could probably pick up some warrants that would be very investor friendly. As far as I'm concerned this is the boat I've been waiting for, for a long time. I've had channel fever for the past couple months waiting for this baby to dock and a few more weeks to pull into port isn't going to matter in the long scheme at all. Once this one starts unloading it's going to be a gold mine IMO. Metal stocks won't be able to hold a candle to this one, ounce for ounce TQ-Dots are more precious than gold. I Believe Dr. Bob is very right when he said to the affect this stock price isn't going to be around for long, my question is how high does it go? $.10 X 2 years = $10, $20, $30, $40? IMO still to low.
How's this?
Clean Energy Question
Secretary Chu,
Just how is the US suppose to take a lead internationally in energy solutions when we lag behind in development and sponsored support? Companies like Quantum Materials Corp /Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. based right here in the heart of the sun belt have to pursue overseas development opportunities. Countries such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are running circles around the US who can't see the forest of energy resources because of the political trees. One example is awarding $532 Million to just one company in California, Solyndra. A political favor payback possibly for supporting a particular vote? The UAE is publicly stating and engaging in the development of innovative renewable energies. Their goal is to become to the solar industry what they are in the oil industry, major exporters of the next generation of energy. Why is the US not pursuing this same strategy with real investment in educational facilities that have the sole purpose of researching and developing the next generation of renewable technologies for energy as the UAE is doing at KAUST University? Instead of the professors having to look and find their own funding at KAUST they are automatically granted an annual research budget of 400 to 800K to use at their discretion. How good is the DOE assistance program when companies like Solterra are forced to seek help developing breakthrough opportunities in solar power overseas instead of where it would benefit the US economy the most, developing infrastructure for energy independence here in the US .
Respectfully,
William Leigh
Kind of screwed up rereading it now by mixing the education part and funding of a company. Too late now, it's sent. That's what I get after a day of partying in Vegas. Time to pass out for a couple hours. :)
Hello Leenico,
You're right you won't find it in writing anywhere other than what I posted. The guys are right in their defense of my statement. It originated from the below paragraph in this press release: http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/06-10-2009/0005041544&EDATE
It is anticipated that upon the closing of this private financing Hague will retain a substantial equity interest in Solterra. Management believes that by executing this plan and funding the solar production subsidiary, Hague will not have the burden of funding Solterra Renewable Technologies thereby freeing up additional resources for the further development of other uses for Quantum Dots and generating additional revenues and potential profits for Hague. Hague will be the sole supplier of Quantum Dots to Solterra thereby creating a profitable captured market for Quantum Dots used in the manufacture of solar cells without creating any adverse constraints on Hague's resources.
I contacted the investor relations individual that was then representing Hague and discussed the "substantial equity" comment in the press release. The goal was to maintain a minimum 50% interest at worse case. Thus my interpretation of what that press release sentence meant.
A lot has changed since then but I don't believe managements intent has ever been to give the farm away, in any business transaction they do. So I still look for a healthy reward for owning QTMM before what ever deal is struck for spinning off Solterra. Whether it's 2 shares of QTMM will get me 1 share of Solterra, or 100 to get 1 share, all I know is it will be more than I own today and IMO they are going to be worth a heck of a lot more in the future.
The international ground work that they are currently laying out is eventually going to take us out of this wait and see period. Solar is a main focus in executing their business plan but as D5 and P19 have shown TQD'a are the next generation of semiconductors with applications in four major industry sectors — manufacturing and materials, electronics and IT, healthcare and life sciences, and energy and environment. That's why the first one out of the starting gate with a viable product that supports commercialization needs in any of the industries will be a huge success. Stealth is frustrating for the investors but necessary for success in this environment where the stakes are so high.
Hi Leenico,
Thanks for that post. It's very encouraging during a dry spell for news and press releases. Dr. Bob was a great add to the team. A short response like he gave says volumes to me with wording like several major, will ultimatley be involved in many projects. I personally sent an e-mail many months ago to Mr. Page to contact Solterra for use of their light weight solar panels in the future. Maybe one of the many projects, it's not so far fetched now. http://www.spaceenergy.com/i/flash/ted_presentation but What really perked up my eyes was his last sentence. "!!!!" IMO Even he is excited for the future prospects of this stock and he didn't have to say a word.
Hi Duke,
If you don’t believe, how religious are you? What does that have to do with investing? EVERYTHING. Faith is believing in what you can’t see, smell or touch. Investing in a startup company is having the faith in the CEO and his team and believing they can deliver when there are only words with a vision. As we get closer to being able to see and touch a final product the risk to rewards ratio becomes much clearer. As far as acting like a great investment I’m not sure there really is a definitive format in the beginning for such companies. Having an unlimited bank roll would help but how would Bill Gates and his idea have fit into your definition of a great investment for the future? I don’t have the 100% answer for you, only you can make that decision but I do know from my own DD, my own position is pretty positive. A year and a half ago I really had to have faith as it was best said on Facebook – Solterra “Trusting that people will deliver is very hard to accept. Reaping the rewards for believing is priceless!”. You may want to read this to get a feel of where some of the smarter minds than my own believe companies involved with this technology are headed. http://bit.ly/5ElApo I personally believe the management team led by Mr. Squires is more than competent to bring this 1 billionth of a meter artificial atom and it’s possible uses from a dream to fruition.
Do your own DD and make your own investment decisions. GLTU
ACTA NON VERBA
Any connection from D5's find with the future?? Timing is in line with expectations.
(l) Licensee shall bring a 100 Megawatt volume production facility for solar cells on stream by February 28, 2012.
http://www.theafricareport.com/last-business-news/3293316-Egypt%20plans%20100%20MW%20solar%20power%20plant%20by%202017.html
Egypt plans 100 MW solar power plant by 2017
July 9, 2010, 2:50 pm
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt plans to build a 100 MW solar power plant between 2012 and 2017, after its first solar plant starts this year, the Electricity Ministry said on Friday. Egypt aims to generate 20 percent of its power from renewable sources by 2020. Solar projects have lagged behind wind, but the country's first solar plant at Koraymat, south of Cairo, is scheduled for completion this year. That first plant involves 120 megawatt (MW) of conventional generation using natural gas and 20 MW of solar power. The second solar power project at Kom Ombo, further south and near the Aswan High Dam hydro-electric plant, would only use photovoltaic power and would have 100 MW capacity, ministry undersecretary Aktham Abou el Ella told Reuters. The project would cost 4 billion Egyptian pounds and had financial backing from the World Bank and the African Development Fund, he said. The Kom Ombo project was part of a five-year plan running from 2012-2017, Abou el Ella said, elaborating on comments made by the minister and carried by the official MENA news agency. Egypt, an oil and gas producer, has been developing wind power along its eastern Red Sea coast. It already has wind farms at Zafarana and Hurghada in the area and has so far installed capacity of 430 MW of wind energy.
http://www.ksawpf.com/conference/agenda.aspx
Monday October 4th Jabbour is a panel member for:
Managing change and the move towards a long-term strategy beyond oil
• In what ways can Saudi Arabia benefit from renewable energies?
• Latest on the regulatory framework for investment in renewable energy
• How do you make renewables competitive? What are the incentives? How can a tariff mechanism for renewables be deployed?
• What is the outlook for solar in the Kingdom’s sustainable energy mix? Does Saudi Arabia have the potential to be a solar energy hub?
• Customising solar technologies for the Saudi environment. What is the outlook for grid-connected PV? Opportunities in solar desalination
Keynote Presentation:
Dr Khalid Al Sulaiman, Vice President for Renewable Energy, King Abdullah City for Atomic & Renewable Energy (KA-CARE)
Moderator: Ahmad Al-Khowaiter, Director of New Business Evaluation Department, Saudi Aramco
Panel:
Dr Ghassan Jabbour, Head of Solar Development, KAUST
Senior Representative, Saudi Aramco*
Dr Zagloul Al-Naggar, Geology Expert
Further panel members to be announced
Questions & Answers
Rubbing elbows with Saudi Aramco can't be a bad thing.
Jabbour has a few projects he could be working on like:
Prof. Jabbour's Research Interests
Prof. Jabbour's research interests are: photovoltaic materials and devices; flexible and stretchable nanothick electronics and photonics; Nano and macro printed optical, electronic and optoelectronic materials and devices; optimization of OLEDs performance and integration; optics and materials science of thin films and nanostructures; combinatorial techniques in photonic and electronic materials discovery; photosensitive materials for optoelectronic applications; chemical and biological sensors; quantum simulations of materials.
Steve is probably working on the IPO thus the FTC involvement or some other related spin off activity associated with raising funds.
Doderer has to be spinning up the manufacturing process and documentation for future orders of TQD around the Houston area. This is in line with their plan: "Direct sales of quantum dots for non-solar applications will be made to provide cash flow to the company for ongoing operations and expansion."
Robinson and Ando are opening opportunities for those direct sales by breaking down the barriers and introducing QMC to the industry players and researchers.
Dr. Bob is talking up a storm to get a strategic alliance deal along with processing paper to get the word out from PR prep to funding. At least that is what I think these guys have been and are doing. I could be completely off the mark but one thing we do know is they are busy working on catapulting this company into the future as the market leader for TQD's, Solterra Solar Cells and other electronic gizmo's using TQD's.
Dr. Bob Glass on twitter:
http://twitter.com/drbob999
Long trip to Mideast. Great success in meeting potential customer. Glad to be back in USA
http://twitter.com/Solterra
Dorothy had it right, there is no place like home. His whirlwind trip will bare fruit of some type. I find it intriguing he spent so much time there and it is in the singular tense. Something’s up and I'm betting it's in the positive direction.
PE,
Funny you should post that article link. I stopped in on Tuesday to Advanced GeoServices. I heard they had won a contract for filter research using nanoparticles to clean the water from the Marsallus Shale Gas projects. Mr. DeMarco was not persuing research using tetrapod Quantum Dots so I told him I would send him some info about the company. Wrote to Dr. Wong because he is doing research on water purification. Who knows where it will lead.
Bill
All this solar stuff, if I remember didn't we enter into an arrangement with University of Arizona for LEDs? We did, http://ih.advfn.com/p.php?pid=nmona&cb=1251047503&article=38784885&symbol=NB%5EHGUE
That side of the business should also do fairly well then: http://www.eetindia.co.in/ART_8800610274_1800010_NT_69237f2e.HTM?8800052441&8800610274&click_from=8800052441,9949967805,2010-06-23,EEIOL,ARTICLE_ALERT
Even though the price may be down my expectations are some very good things are brewing in the works. I got from the posted message that Dr. Glass went off to Jeddah on his own. IMO that kind of tells me he has the Solterra Renewable Technologies side of the business or they are in such a position that Steve had to stay back to work on more important developments of the business plan. Either way DR. Bob didn't go there probably spending some of his own money with the mind set of I'm on a sinking ship as some seem to believe because of the price pull back. Some who are averaging down or picking up more are loving this, others are getting their guts in a knot thinking about their losses and others just roll with the punch knowing this company isn't going to stay such a bargain forever.
I personally would like to see it between 50 cents and $1, but even if it goes there I'll then be saying why isn't it $1.50 or $2? It has all this potential and the stock market is priced on a 6 month outlook for future earnings, why isn't QTMM? Because it's still all hearsay until there is a product and contracts in hand. So I'll abide my time until the day that press release comes out. On that day I'll give Freegrass a run for his money doing a few toasts. One beer for each letter in the companies name, on second thought maybe I'll drink to the ticker symbol and save the name for a Bora Bora get together.
D5 that is a huge find! That eliminates having to have a large sales force and going out drumming up business. A company like QMC will benefit immmensely if they can trade their TQD's to the highest bidder. This keeps getting better and better every day and closer to me handing my boss a CD, tape or vinyl with the label "Take This Job and Shove It".
Obsolete,
You said, "It is coming down because people are loosing faith in management." I'm not so sure of that and I'll tell you why I don't believe it. 5-11-10 ~ Mid May Yahoo suspended my Ads. If you look at a chart the stock started its decent around that time. Unable to resolve or get any answers or details why and how to reinstate it I moved over to Microsoft. It took some time to develop acceptable keywords but never got the number of views I was getting over at yahoo and then on 6-16-10 Microsoft cut the ads running. Volume dropped to 0 extending the lower then normal volume during the past month. I think as the volume dried and a few sold it exasperated the trend down on very low volume. Once it hit ~.12 it scared a few faint of heart and south it went some more, allowing todays 23% midday drop to the high .9's. For those in the know about the company that have been following this they knew it was a very good buy. Any one not familiar with this companies history or its plans would think different. I just resolved the Microsoft Ads issue this evening as they were informative. I don't agree with their belief the web site isn't acceptable as it relates to the ad http://solterra1.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/profit-from-nano-history-in-the-making/ so I'm not sure of the results in the future with them pointing to http://www.solterrasolarcells.com instead. People that clicked on the Ads were brought to the Solterra1 site to decide for themselves the future of the technology. I thought it was very appropriate, Microsoft being in the drivers seat won and I lost.
So your statement may have some truth that "It is coming down because people are loosing faith in management." but the majority I believe have faith in management to follow their business plan of "ACTA NON VERBA" and sold because they were not in the know about how management operates QTMM and some just got impatient. D5 glad to see you were able to recover some. Unless that sail boat is 900', I think I'll fly to Bora Bora and meet you guys there. That will be a vacation, unlike the business trip Dr. Bob and Steve are currently on in order to secure our vacation funds. I hope they have a helleva trip. My daughter spent her honeymoon in Bora Bora so I'll ask her about some does and don't there.
Time to sleep.
PV
I like surrounding the bulb with PV cells to capture some of the energy but I believe it's already being worked on. Check out the 4th paragraph in http://www.ecogeek.org/weird-stuff/3003-waste-heat-could-power-computers-cell-phones
This also excites me for waste heat recovery, Photovoltaic cells that respond to infrared – ‘thermovoltaics’ - can even capture radiation from a fuel-fire emitter; and co-generation of electricity and heat are said to be quiet, reliable, clean and efficient. A 1 cm2 silicon cell in direct sunlight will generate about 0.01W, but an efficient infrared photovoltaic cell of equal size can produce theoretically 1W in a fuel-fired system.
Once they get up and running the potential applications they can pursue or get involved with almost seem limitless, which means an income stream of mega proportions.
WOOFERWAX,
I did not meet Steve when I was there. His dad was very sick around that time and he wound up flying out the evening before. I was hoping to get a first hand heads up on the company but it wasn't in the cards. I met Dr. Jabbour and we talked for a few minutes before he headed to class and that was it. As some have found out Steve is very private and does not return phone calls. As of late I haven't heard a peep so that pretty much confirms for me what PV19 said, they are on the move again. Fits their style. PV also posted the link to what I think will be the future Quantum web page, that's good news for me. That tells me they are on track to split the company into two. They will use the existing solterra site and create the new Quantum site. They will have to change the EviDot pictures they used to Tetrapod QD's though. Good things will happen, as Mr. Squires said a long time ago, something to the effect, I'll let the results do the talking. Acta Non Verba a very good philosophy to follow for success. Hopefully it's more acta across the pond by Dr. Glass then it is verba. Closure from a few Robinson deals would be most appreciated by all.
GLTU
Hi Obsolete,
Not sure if you were referring to me or not with this: "Our wiseman and diligent man reduced their holding to half of original". If you were I want to state for the record I have not sold 1 share, nor do I plan to for some time. My first out is mid single digit. We aren't there either high $ or low $0. I'm in for the long haul and practice what I preach, buy and hold. Things are pretty quite again so when this happens they are setting up the next phase. Which one it is I don't know, pick one:
QUANTUM DOTS:
The design of the pilot line = initial target output approximately one kilogram per day
further scaled at least by an order of magnitude to 100 Kilograms per day in late 2010.
Output will be used for:
Solterra’s quantum dot solar cells
Stand-alone sales into the biomedical research fields
Third party developers of quantum dot products such as displays, memory and computer and consumer electronics.
Executing University of Arizona "Screen-Printing Techniques for the Fabrication for Organic Light-Emitting Diodes."
SOLAR CELLS:
Pilot proof line for solar cells
Target cell efficiencies are 6% within one year, 10% within 2 years and greater than 20% within five years.
Cell cost per watt decreasing below $1.00/Watt,
Initial product sales in late 2010 with significant increases in 2011.
High throughput print line - output near gigawatt range
FACILITIES:
Commercial production of quantum dots will likely be consolidated in a purpose built facility in Phoenix, Arizona
So even though we may be down now, this temporary slide is providing a pretty good opportunity for some to capitalize on it.
I didn't see Michael Wong as an author. The probability QMC will be able to use it is pretty remote imo. Colvin has worked with Wong in the past but not this time.
Huiguang Zhu1, Arjun Prakash2, Denise N Benoit1,
Christopher J Jones1 and Vicki L Colvin1
1 Department of Chemistry, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA
2 Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, TX, USA