{"id":840,"date":"2010-07-28T05:16:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T10:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/?p=840"},"modified":"2019-05-28T11:06:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T16:06:34","slug":"solar-leds-tech-companys-new-and-improved-business-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/solar-leds-tech-companys-new-and-improved-business-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar &#038; LEDS: Tech company&#8217;s new and improved business model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Applied Materials announced this week that it was planning a major restructuring of it&#8217;s business. The goal? To place a &#8220;primary emphasis&#8221; on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/LEDs.html\">LEDS<\/a> and crystalline silicon solar panel technology.<\/p>\n<p>This restructuring would effect the bottom line of the company in many ways including the elimination of 400 &#8211; 500 jobs and the closing of their thin-film solar technology lab among other plans.<\/p>\n<p>The future of Applied Material&#8217;s solar technology would focus on the crystalline silicon solar product development over the thin-film solar business. Historically, crystalline silicon (c-Si) has been used in many solar cells as a light-absorbing semiconductor although it is considered a relatively inefficient for light absorption. It also requires a considerable thickness (several hundred microns) of material.<br \/>\nDespite this, it has proven to be desirable because it produces stable solar cells with good efficiencies (11-16%, which is half to two-thirds of the theoretical maximum). It uses process technology developed from the huge knowledge base of the microelectronics industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applied Materials announced this week that it was planning a major restructuring of it&#8217;s business. The goal? To place a &#8220;primary emphasis&#8221; on LEDS and crystalline silicon solar panel technology. This restructuring would effect the bottom line of the company in many ways including the elimination of 400 &#8211; 500 jobs and the closing of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[1038,1039],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsworthy","tag-leds","tag-solar-panels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4006,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/4006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.westfloridacomponents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}