Air Products has brought onstream an expansion of its high-purity hydrogen selenide (H2Se) production capabilities at its electronic specialty materials manufacturing facility in Hometown, Pennsylvania.
The new capacity was added to serve the growing copper indium gallium selenium (CIGS) thin-film solar cell manufacturing market.
Air Products 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," said 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.
Air Products provides atmospheric, process and specialty gases, performance materials, equipment and technology to the energy, environment and emerging markets.
