Berlin

I've taken a leave of absence from blogging these last few months while moving to Berlin. I've been at the new job for 2 weeks now, with a solar cell company whose main focus is to make solar panels and make a profit. Since I've been in research for umpteen years, this is quite a change for me. My job will still be to make a better solar cell but I expect blogging about the details will become a bit more tricky. Nevertheless, I'll see what I can do...

Apologies to not having responded to the comments earlier. I've now made sure I get notified when comments arrive.

I won't be writing much in the near future, since I still haven't found a place to live and have decided to give this matter top priority. Afraid this blog will have to continue hibernating a bit more.

Summary and links to earlier CIGS posts

I've decided to leave my earlier CIGS posts in my personal blog for the simple reason that it seems complicated to move them here. Instead I'll provide the CIGS link to them with a little summary of the content here from oldest to newest.

A solar module: I-V curve of Ångström 12.5 x 12.5 cm module.
Solar cells, modules and panels: Series and parallel connections of CIGS devices.
A CIGS solar cell: Description of the layers that make up a CIGS cell.
My solar installation: My frustrations with Swedish laws making private ownership of solar panels uneconomical.
Building a solar charger: Building chargers using our own 12.5 x 12.5 cm square modules.
Nanosolar: Written in July, 2008 about why the hype around Nanosolar was just that - hype.
A CIGS day: Making CIGS with half the usual thickness.
The making of a CIGS solar cell: How I deposit the layers of a CIGS solar cell.
Patent application: As the title says.
Fun with setbacks: The copper evaporation source is broken.
Hello World: The first new co-contributor, Per-Oskar, introduces himself.
How does a CIGS solar cell respond to sunlight?: CIGS spectral response and the solar spectrum.

Hopefully, there will be more contributors. It would be great to have a site for sharing ideas and getting feedback. If you would like be a contributor, please leave a comment to this post.

/Marta

Blog move

I've finally decided to separate my CIGS ramblings from my personal ones even though the two often overlap. The plan is to bring over all CIGS related stuff from my personal blog, sunthings. Apparently my last post on quantum eficiency had a tad too much detail for some friends and family. This way I can feel free to talk about band gaps, Fermi levels and activation energies along with the usual nuts and bolts of the CIGS world. Not that I will - there's a risk of severe ignorance exposure. But at least the possibility's there. I hope to get some CIGS-savvy guest bloggers, too, starting with my co-workers at Uppsala University. We'll see if this goes anywhere. It'll be a couple of weeks before I actually move the CIGS stuff here.