Sencera Awarded NC Green Business Fund Grant for $100,000
Sencera Enters into a Separation Agreement with XsunX
Sencera CEO to Speak at NYC Green Technology Event
Sencera's Manufacturing Plant Location Discussed in the Charlotte Business Journal
Sencera's CEO Profiled in the Charlotte Business Journal
Sencera Invesment Featured in Charlotte Business Journal
Sencera raises $3.6 Million to Build 1 Megawatt PV Manufacturing Platform
Sencera is a company focused on the development of devices that directly convert solar energy to electricity (photovoltaics) as an economically competitive power source. The company develops and manufactures high density plasma sources, plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition hardware for depositing thin films, and deposited solar cells. Sencera’s proprietary manufacturing technology dramatically lowers production costs of thin film solar modules.

Established in 2003, Sencera customers included the US Army and the US Display Consortium. Sencera's plasma processes and hardware were successfully utilized in Thin Film Transistor and Integrated Circuit applications. Sencera tools have been demonstrated in transistors used in flexible Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) panels for flat screen computer or television monitors. These processes have direct photovoltaic applications. In 2007, Sencera embarked on the development of proprietary thin film amorphous silicon and microcrystalline silicon solar modules.
Sencera plasma sources deposit amorphous silicon (a:Si) and nanocrystalline silicon (nc:Si) at very high rates. Nanocrystalline solar cells do not experience significant degradation when exposed to light (the Staebler-Wronski effect).
Deposited Silicon Solar cells can be manufactured at lower cost than other photovoltaic technologies.
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Last updated July 2008