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Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. names Dr. Ghassen E. Jabbour as Chief Science Officer

Hague Corp./Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc.,  a solar technology and quantum dot manufacturing company, today announced the appointment of Dr. Ghassen E. Jabbour to the position of Chief Science Officer. In this new role, he will lead the development and characterization of Solterra's thin film Quantum Dot solar cell products. Dr. Jabbour is the Director of Flexible and Organic Electronics Development at the Flexible Display Center (FDC) and a

24th November 2008

Innovation in Textiles
 |  Scottsdale, Arizona

Sustainable

Hague Corp./Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc.,  a solar technology and quantum dot manufacturing company, today announced the appointment of Dr. Ghassen E. Jabbour to the position of Chief Science Officer. In this new role, he will lead the development and characterization of Solterra's thin film Quantum Dot solar cell products.

Dr. Jabbour is the Director of Flexible and Organic Electronics Development at the Flexible Display Center (FDC) and a Professor of Chemical and Materials Engineering at Arizona State University since 2006. He is also the Technical Advisory Board Leader on Optoelectronic Materials, Devices and Encapsulation at FDC. He has been selected to the Asahi Shimbun 100 New Leaders of the USA and has received the Presidential Award for Excellence from the Hariri Foundation in 1997. Dr. Jabbour's research experience encompasses flexible-roll-to-roll-electronics and displays, smart textile, moisture and oxygen barrier technology, transparent conductors, organic light emitting devices, organic and hybrid photovoltaics, organic memory storage, organic thin film transistors, combinatorial discovery of materials, nano and macro printed devices, micro and nanofabrication, biosensors, and quantum simulations of electronic materials. He has authored and co-authored over 300 publications and has edited several books and symposia proceedings involving organic photonics and electronics, and nanotechnology.

"We are extremely pleased to have someone as talented and accomplished as Dr. Jabbour join our team as CSO," said Stephen Squires, President and CEO of Solterra. "Ghassen's deep understanding of nanotechnology and photovoltaics will drive our future product development," added Squires.

About Hague Corp./Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc.

Solterra is singularly positioned to lead the development of truly sustainable and cost-effective solar technology as the first company to introduce a new dimension of cost reduction by replacing silicon wafer-based solar cells with low-cost, highly efficient Quantum Dot-based solar cells.

Source: Hague Corp.

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