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Progress continues, without the kerf

Selected by the Technology Highlights independent jury as the Technology to Watch for 2018, 1366 Technologies’ Direct Wafer Process is an innovation that could transform the way silicon wafer is produced, and dramatically reduce its costs. pv magazine caught up with 1366 Technologies CTO Adam Lorenz to discuss latest developments in the process and the company’s efforts to scale up and bring it to the market.

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Mark Hutchins

19 Jun 2018

What can you tell me about the technology underlying the Direct Wafer Process? What was the key breakthrough?No doubt we’ve had the benefit of building on work that was done before us, much of it in our backyard in the Northeast United States. The challenge we’ve solved is one that the industry has wrestled with …

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