the dawn of a new solar age

Latest news

2008 July 1

Sencera Awarded NC Green Business Fund Grant for $100,000

2008 June 13

Sencera Enters into a Separation Agreement with XsunX

2008 June 2

Sencera CEO to Speak at NYC Green Technology Event

2008 May 30

Sencera's Manufacturing Plant Location Discussed in the Charlotte Business Journal

2008 May 23

Sencera's CEO Profiled in the Charlotte Business Journal

2008 April 18

Sencera Invesment Featured in Charlotte Business Journal

2008 April 15

Sencera raises $3.6 Million to Build 1 Megawatt PV Manufacturing Platform

 

Welcome

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. 

 

From LCD Displays to Solar Modules

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.

Solar Module Manufacturing

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.

© Sencera 2003-2008

Last updated July 2008