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Contents
2 Forget oversupply; welcome the era of clean energy
Debasish Choudhury
Technology Focus
8 Debugging and verifying microinverters for photovoltaic
installations
Win Seipel, Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA
12 The importance of Cpk
Darren Brown, DEK, Weymouth, UK
Special Features
10 The importance of seal selection on PV productivity
and cost
16 Lasers, for more efficient solar cells
18 Interview— Dr. Madhusudan V. Atre, Applied Materials
India Pvt. Ltd.
20 Intersolar lights up San Francisco
22 PV America gets off to a good start in Philadelphia
22 Shah demands respect for solar industry at PV America
REGULAR COLUMNS
6 Renewable energy going forward
Dr. Jennie S. Hwang
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Regular Features
4 Industry News
24 Technological Developments
28 New Products
40 Events Calendar
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of the Helios Prototype flying
wing at AeroVironment’s Design
Development Center in Simi
Valley, California. Source: NASA.
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