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Ultrasonic Technologies (UST) - is an electronic equipment company that manufactures precision tools and quality control systems for diagnostics and detection of cracks and stress in silicon (Si) based wafers and solar cells for Photovoltaic (PV) and integrated circuits manufacturing.

UST Mission - is to design and manufacture high accuracy and reliability systems and devices for quality control and process inspection for solar cell and renewable energy industries.

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Ultrasonic team with research partners from the University of South Florida (Tampa, FL) and Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA) presented at 37th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialist Conference in Seattle, WA (June 19-24). The poster and proceedings of this presentation can be uploaded from the "Publications" page.
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Ultrasonic Technologies Inc., has sold its state of the art Resonance Ultrasonic Vibrations (RUV) Crack Detection System to Bloom Energy, a Sunnyvale, CA based company that provides breakthrough solid oxide fuel cell technology to generate clean, highly-efficient power onsite.
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Forget about the days when an estimated global capacity of 25 MW was something to boast about; today, a single manufacturer can run multiple 25 MW production lines, routinely turning out 20,000 to 30,000 cells per day.

Of course, fabrication is only half the battle. A product can't succeed unless it performs. That makes solar cell inspection, whether for quality assurance or process control, absolutely essential.
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Ultrasonic Technologies, Inc recently relocated to a new facility in Wesley Chapel, FL. The new space provides a new production area, a lab, a conference room and offices for staff. We are very pleased with our new space and feel confident that the space will allow us to provide exceptional service to our customers.

Resonance Ultrasonic Vibration (RUV) model 2.2 successfully passed TUV certification. Receipt of the certificate demonstrates that an internal quality control system is in place for the products approved by TUV Rheinland at UST manufacturing facility. Read More...

The award will fund development of manufacturing processes to scale up production of Resonance Ultrasonic Vibration (RUV) technology as new and proven industrial quality control and crack detection system for Silicon Solar Manufacturing. Read More...

Ultrasonic Technologies became a Microsoft® Partner Program Registered Member as a developer and designer of software applications for RUV technology.

Ultrasonic Technologies developed a proprietary method to identify silicon wafers and solar cells with small, sub-millimeter “Pinhole” defects and cracks. “Pinhole” represents a seed point anomaly which dramatically reduces wafer and cell strength and ultimately leads to breakage and yield reduction. UST researched and developed an Activating Station add-on which is once integrated with our RUV system allows successful detection of “Pinhole” cracks.
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Typical cell manufacturing line with a capacity of 1800 cells/hr, suffers a loss of 500K to more than 2 million Euros each year due to cell and wafer breakage during production.

Ultrasonic Technologies and RUV Systems conducted an extensive research and production study proving that the RUV system will decrease production breakage by 21% and up to an extraordinary 88% reduction in cell and wafer breakage.
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Ultrasonic Technologies Inc., has sold its state of the art Resonance Ultrasonic Vibrations (RUV) Crack Detection System to Suniva, Inc., a Norcross, GA based solar cell company that develops, manufactures and markets high-efficiency, low-cost monocrystalline silicon solar cells.
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OTB Solar - a provider of design, engineering, development and manufacturing of tailor-made inline solar cell production equipment - has placed an order with RUV Systems for Resonance Ultrasonic Vibrations (RUV) crack detection. The unit ordered, a RUV 2.2 QC Automatic, will provide both offline and an inline crack detection.
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