Drivers
Environmental concerns driving need for clean and sustainable energy sources with aggressive legislation to achieve environmental targets and key economic drivers for alternative energies
Technologies
- First Generation: Silicon based
- Second Generation: Thin film
- Third Generation: GaAs CPV (Concentrator PhotoVoltaics)
Market size
Expected to grow by 50% per annum reaching 1.7GW by 2012 (approx 1.5m 4” wafers)
IQE position
- IQE brings over 20 years of experience as a pure-play epi-foundry to to its partners and potential partners in CPV technologies
- IQE forms strategic partnerships with key players (IP rich, typically fabless outsource model)
- IQE enables product development in conjunction with strategic partners
- IQE promotes and adopts of same business model employed successfully in the wireless sector
- IQE has already demonstrated state of the art efficiencies with two separate partners in developmental structures