Quantum Materials Corp. (fka QTMM)

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If we do well in Saudi Arabia
they won't need to go to the SF Solar Summit!

I live in the bay area and would go to them if they weren't so expensive to attend. Thanks for the info, I signed up for the newsletter on thin film PV. The conference is all about CIGS and CdTe - both more expensive to in materials and to produce than our CdSe material. We own the patent on CdSe quantum dots. I believe our proprietary ink system does not use the more involved vacuum production. One of the seminar session is about whether they are running out of "Te" material! I found this news article on the website. $2 billion market forecast for the more expensive/harder to produce PV!

CIGS PV market to touch $2.16 bn in 2016
http://social.thinfilmtoday.com/news/cigs-pv-market-touch-216-bn-2016

A report has indicated that the CIGS PV market is expected to grow from $403.1 million in 2011 to $2.16 billion in 2016.

According to the findings from NanoMarkets' report, titled "Materials Markets for CIGS Photovoltaics", despite setbacks, CIGS will fulfill its potential as the wonder child of the thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) materials business.

Short-term setbacks, including the current economic meltdown and the technical and managerial problems that companies in this area have experienced over the past two years, will push out initial assumptions for CIGS PV ramp up. But there are several positive signs pointing toward CIGS' ability to come through in the long term. First, NREL announced recently that it had achieved an efficiency of 20.0 percent on CIGS-based champion cells. As well, two large companies with experience in the semiconductor industry—IBM and TOK—have invested heavily in CIGS PV.

In order for CIGS PV to become a low-cost PV option, non-vacuum methods will be required to form the absorber layer. NanoMarkets expects that cells produced using non-vacuum methods, including electrodeposition and printing techniques, will outpace the growth of the vacuum deposition methods. Revenues for CIGS cells produced using these non-vacuum techniques to grow from about $130.2 million in 2011, to $1.2 billion in 2016.

The findings have also indicated that one area of opportunity for materials suppliers is the substrate material used for CIGS PV cells. The most widely used substrate, which represents the largest material component of CIGS PV in volume terms, is glass. However, there is a need for flexible substrates that allow for roll-to-roll, continuous processing, which many believe will substantially reduce the cost of producing these cells.

"As a result, companies and research institutions are evaluating new substrate materials such as glass-polymer composites and polyimide materials. NanoMarkets expects flexible glass and composite glass materials to take an increasing share of the CIGS PV substrate market," stated the firm.