SAS of Taiwan has always been one of the major suppliers for high-efficiency multi-Si wafers. The company will mainly promote black silicon and R wafer in 2017, hoping to stimulate the visibility of black silicon. M...  more

JA Solar is expanding its production lines in Vietnam. On November 29th 2016, the company announced to begin the construction for the 1.5GW wafer plant in Vietnam. The plant is expected to be completed within three ...  more

1366 Technologies (1366) unveiled the first of a series of R&D achievements that have the potential to change the way the solar industry thinks about wafer features. The company’s proprietary Direct Wafer pro...  more

The “Etching Solution and Method of Surface Roughening of Silicon Substrate”, a diamond wire technology originally invented by Green Energy Technology (GET) is officially granted patent by Taiwan Patent and Intellectua...  more

Hanwha Q CELLS and 1366 Technologies (1366) have entered into a supply agreement. 1366 will supply up to 700MW of wafers using its proprietary Direct Wafer™ technology to Hanwha Q CELLS over a five-year period fo...  more

SunEdison introduced the “asset-light strategy” to refocus its Solar Materials operations. LONGi, a China-based polysilicon and wafer maker, has signed to purchase the Kuching plant. At the same time, its subsidiary Le...  more

1366 Technologies announced plans to build a commercial solar wafer manufacturing facility in Genesee County New York that will eventually scale to 3 GW, house 400 Direct Wafer™ furnaces, and produce more than 600 million si...  more