Innovation in Manufacturing Takes a Village - Technology Review

Inside an 18,000-square-foot warehouse in Halfmoon, New York, a town north of Albany, a researcher gingerly lifts a photovoltaic cell from an oven, its glass backing shimmering with an ultrathin coating of exotic metals.

This particular solar technology—based on a material called copper indium gallium selenide (often called CIGS)—is a clear underdog in the marketplace. With a supply glut depressing the  price of panels made from crystalline silicon, the dominant technology in solar, CIGS is still too expensive per watt of output to compete (see "The Bright Side of a Solar Industry Shakeout").

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