8/2/2011 9:02:00 AM

Times Union: NanoCollege could see solar tech gains

Times Union

ALBANY -- A Long Island company that makes manufacturing equipment for certain type of solar cells is getting out of the business, but the University at Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering could become the beneficiary.

Veeco Instruments Inc., which makes manufacturing "tools" used in factories that make light-emitting diodes and solar cells, announced last week that it will no longer make tools for a thin-film solar technology known as CIGS that uses copper, indium, gallium and selenium.

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