IDTechEx Announces Winners of the Printed Electronics 2008 Awards

HelioVolt won the Best New Product Development Award. In the face of silicon shortages and continued solar cost issues, HelioVolt’s proprietary FASSTT manufacturing process offers a rapid, low-cost method for printing CIGS photovoltaic coatings. After raising $101 million in its recent Series B funding, HelioVolt Corporation is now commercializing its proprietary manufacturing process and is nearing completion of planning for its first production facility beginning operations in 2008 in the US. HelioVolt is also planning expansion production facilities with manufacturing partners abroad to print CIGS thin film photovoltaics for both conventional modules and integration into building construction materials at commercial scale beginning in 2009.