SunEdison’s high pressure fluidized bed reactor (HP-FBR) process produces high-purity polysilicon using 90% less energy than the dominant Siemens method. The company plans to ramp the plant to 13,500 ...

Three companies have made headlines for their efforts, and failures, to produce polysilicon in the US this year.

There are only four companies that manufacture polysilicon, a critical material for solar panels and semiconductors, in the United States. This spring, one of them got a big influx of cash. In April, ...

PPP's Polysilicon Process Technology and Equipment for 3,000 MTY Solar Grade Silicon Production Plant in Inner Mongolia BURBANK, CA–(Marketwire – January 3, 2011) – Poly Plant Project, Inc. (PPP), a ...

Highland Materials’ CEO, Richard Rast, believes improvements to how polysilicon is made open up opportunities for competition. Image: Highland Materials. When looking into innovation in the solar ...

The chemical vapour deposition (CVD) of polysilicon in Siemens reactors remains a cornerstone process in the manufacture of high-purity silicon for semiconductor and photovoltaic applications. The ...

Munich-based Wacker announced it intends to set up a new production line for semiconductor-grade polysilicon at its facility in Burghausen, Germany. The €300 million ($324.4 million) investment would ...

Global solar trade wars and increased industry oversupply are the main reasons behind low polysilicon prices. The prices of polysilicon have decreased from around $22/kg in H1’14 to $15/kg during ...

According to market researcher DisplaySearch, the flat-panel display (FPD) market is about to explode. Growth rates for active-matrix LCDs (AMLCDs) should reach 35% over the next five years, while ...

Sacrificial polysilicon surface micromachining is emerging as a technology that enables the mass production of complex microelectromechanical systems by themselves, or integrated with microelectronic ...

An innovative design by Motorola's Sensor Products Division in Tempe, Ariz., optimally integrates a surface-micromachined capacitive automotive tire-pressure sensor with a 0.8-µm CMOS double-metal, ...