Materials for Thin-Film Photovoltaics To Reach $3.8 Billion by 2015

Some of the main points in the report include:

• Thin-film PV is no longer a niche consumer of electronic materials. By 2015 amorphous silicon PV will use more than $900 million in silane gas and other silicon-based materials. A few years ago producers of crystalline silicon found that conventional photovoltaics was a major new business opportunity. Thin-film PV is bringing the same kind of opportunity to the leading suppliers of electronic chemicals.