Air Products CIGS coming home with new hydrogen selenide facility
Air Products is expanding its high-purity hydrogen selenide (H2Se) production capabilities at its electronic specialty materials manufacturing facility in the Hometown, Pennsylvania. The new capacity was added to serve the growing CIGS thin-film solar cell manufacturing market. Air Products says it can deliver H2Se to semiconductor and photovoltaic customers at more than 99.99 percent purity levels. "Air Products has a long history of supplying hydrogen selenide and will continue to deliver the cutting edge materials our customers need to manufacture state-of-the-art products," says Joe Stockunas, global business director, Electronic Materials for Air Products. Industry observers believe CIGS technology holds a lot of promise going forward based on the significant advances in efficiency improvement and high-volume manufacturing that producers have already made.
