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SEMI Urges Congress to Extend Solar Tax Credits

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In a hearing held by the Small Business Committee of the House of Representatives on Sept. 11, SEMI, a representative for semiconductor, display, MEMS, photovoltaic, and other related industries, urged Congress to immediately reinstate the R&D tax credit and to pass a long-term extension of the investment tax credit (ITC) for solar energy. The R&D tax credit expired Dec. 31, 2007, and the solar energy ITC is set to expire at the end of the year. In August, the ITC extension failed to pass for the eighth time (see: Solar Incentive Tax Credit Bill Fails). Leo Berlinghieri, CEO and...Read full article

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    The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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