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Morgan Offers PBN Material For TFPV Manufacture Morgan Technical Ceramics' CVD Materials business is offering its Performance Pyrolytic Boron Nitride material for use in the manufacture of the photo-absorption layer in thin-film photovoltaic cells. Performance Pyrolytic Boron Nitride (PBN) is a good material for crucibles and evaporation boats used in producing the thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) cells, as well as for coating graphite heating elements used for material vaporisation. In solar cell production, thin-film deposition offers a simpler and more cost-effective alternative to using silicon wafers. Thin films use less material and are faster and simpler than the complex and delicate process of slicing, dicing and placing of silicon wafers. However, cost of deposition must be reduced and the efficiency of the resulting PV cells sufficiently increased to make solar electricity as inexpensive to generate as carbon-based methods. Use of the PBN material in the TFPV process i...

Torqueleader Helps Morgan Achieve ISO Approval At the end of 2008, Morgan Motor Company gained ISO 9001 approval assisted through the installation of a Torqueleader supplied torque analyser. Morgan currently has an 18 month order book. All cars are made to order with 90 per cent being exported - many to Europe, especially Germany and France. At present they are making around 650 cars a year and have seven different models, prices ranging from roughly GBP25 - GBP100k. The classic cars have a wooden body fixed to steel chassis, the body panels are aluminium and the Aero 8 and Aeromax are fixed to a bonded aluminium chassis. The smaller engines starting at 1.6 litre from Ford up to the larger 4.8 litre V8 engines from BMW are in the Aero 8 and Aeromax models.