SAN JOSE – The Microelectronics Packaging and Test Engineering Council has finalized the program for its Semiconductor to Solar:  Growth Opportunities for the IC Industry symposium, to be held Nov. 19 in Santa Clara, CA.
 
Steve Hill, president of Kyocera Solar Inc., will keynote with creating new markets: a global solar outlook.
 
Other presentations include solar PV manufacturing and processing challenges and opportunities from an equipment maker's perspective; a contamination reduction program for improving materials, process tools, manufacturing environment and clean manufacturing; the PV solar market – eclipsed by the financial crisis; solar scaling up – a dynamic industry's growth; accelerating silicon-photovoltaics technology adoption through a new business model; understanding solar performance and degradation; utilization of new semiconductor materials for solar power conversion; a journey from semiconductor to solar: SolarMagic technology; reliability challenges for solar photovoltaics and opportunities for semiconductors; the heart of PV collaboration – PV group: increasing the power of PV via standards, roadmaps, EHS, and partnerships; taking solar energy mainstream: how public policy drives the PV market, and impact of solar panel interconnects on long-term reliability and economics
 
To register, visit www.meptec.org.