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• Nanosolar Completes Panel Factory, Commences Serial Production September 9, 2009
  Nanosolar Communications Today Nanosolar demonstrated the completion of its European panel-assembly factory as part of an inauguration event attended by Germany's Minister of the Environment, the Governor of the State of Brandenburg, and a host of other leading public officials. Located in Lucken […]
• Nanosolar Unveils Nanosolar Utility Panel™ Technology September 9, 2009
  Martin Roscheisen, CEO In conjunction with today's inauguration of our panel-assembly serial-production factory, we today also unveiled the technology behind our first product, the Nanosolar Utility Panel™, and its unique features and benefits. The Nanosolar Utility Panel™ is the industry’s firs […]
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• NREL Certifies 16.4% Nanosolar Foil Efficiency September 9, 2009
  Martin Roscheisen, CEO It was May 2006 when we last released information about our power-conversion efficiencies to the public (for a cell sample on glass actually back then). We have made a lot of progress since then; so an update is appropriate. Our lab and production teams have managed to make mor […]
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• We Are Hiring! May 4, 2009
  Martin Roscheisen, CEO Please review our current openings.NEW: Internships for engineering graduate students. […]
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• Feeding In Renewable Energy Breakthroughs January 21, 2009
  George Sterzinger, Executive Director, Renewable Energy Policy Project, and Martin Roscheisen, CEO, Nanosolar At a time when many folks in Washington are running around with their hair on fire looking for schemes to dramatically increase renewable energy use by mid-February at the latest, let’s conside […]
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• Nanosolar on NOVA / PBS - "The Big Energy Gamble" January 20, 2009
  Nanosolar Communications On the evening of Obama’s inauguration, PBS aired the fourth chapter of its NOVA program “The Big Energy Gamble” with the following topic: “NUCLEAR TO THE RESCUE? While California Assemblyman Chuck DeVore wants the state to build more nuclear power plants, a company called Nano […]
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• 1kg CIGS = 5kg Uranium December 16, 2008
  Martin Roscheisen, CEO The notion of a kilogram of enriched Uranium conjures up an image of a powerful amout of energy. Enough to power an entire city for years when used in a nuclear power plant, or enough to flatten an entire county when used in a bomb — that’s presumably what many people would say i […]
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• Tubular PV? December 10, 2008
  Attached Images:  Martin Roscheisen, CEO One of the great things about solar cells manufactured on a flexible substrate, such as Nanosolar’s, is their versatility: they can be assembled into all sorts of forms and shapes of solar panel pro […]
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• Named Best Invention of the Year 2008 by Time Magazine October 30, 2008
  Martin Roscheisen, CEO Time Magazine just published its list of the 50 best inventions of the year 2008 and named Nanosolar’s thin-film technology one of them. We are honored by this prestigious selection and will redouble our efforts to invent even more! With more than 300 patents and hundreds of tigh […]
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• Solar and the Credit Crisis October 17, 2008
  Martin Roscheisen, CEO Three years ago, when asked to contribute an op-ed perspective to the solar industry’s main trade magazine, I thought it useful to focus it on how poor manufacturing capital efficiency is really a very critical issue facing the solar industry and how this is what Nanosolar is see […]
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