Featured in Triple Green – 01-2010

Successful visionary

Photovoltaics pioneer: When the self-educated scientist Stanford R. Ovshinsky announced the science of amorphous materials and semiconductors in the 1950s, very few recognized the future. Then he founded Energy Conversion Devices, which became one of the most successful solar companies. Today, the 87-year old is developing a one-gigawatt thin film production process intended to make solar energy cheaper than ever.

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pv magazine

14 Sep 2010

Modesty sounds somewhat different. “I made new areas of science that will be kept going by a lot of people,” says Stanford Ovshinsky. He has good reason to say so. Not least because it was his work that enabled today’s boom in thin film technology, and because of the rapid rise of Uni-Solar thin film …

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