Highland materials articles
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Highland Materials’ US silicon production could be ‘game changer’ for US solar
New entrants into US polysilicon manufacturing could be a 'game changer,' Solar Media head of research Finlay Colville told PV Tech Premium.
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‘Game changer’: Highland Materials to invest in US polysilicon production amid plummeting market prices
In April, US polysilicon producer Highland Materials secured US$256 million in tax credits to build a new polysilicon factory in north-east Tennessee-the first greenfield polysilicon plant to be announced outside of China for many years. The funding was part of the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s award of 48C tax credits, announced earlier this year under […]
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Materials scientists reveal pathway for designing optical materials with specialized properties
While we usually think of disorder as a bad thing, a team of materials science researchers led by Rohan Mishra, from Washington University in St. Louis, and Jayakanth Ravichandran, from the University of Southern California, have revealed that—when it comes to certain crystals—a little structural disorder might have big impacts on useful optical properties.