Showing posts with label back to work. Show all posts
Showing posts with label back to work. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Back to work



Alessandro didn't get quite what he expected at the haircutter's! But it is quite the fashion.

I'm back at work 50% and started yesterday by working with my trainee to make CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-diselenide) solar cells. There are many steps in this process, all involving coatings on glass of thicknesses on the order of around a micron (a thousandth of a millimeter)or less. Yesterday's step was the making the CIGS layer itself, the heart of the solar cell. I started at 10am and was done at midnight - it looks like I've almost finished my 50% worktime for this week!