ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung - or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research - Baden-Württemberg) of Stuttgart, Germany has boosted the efficiency of cadmium-free copper indium gallium diselenide ...
Tags: ZSW CIGS, Solar Cells
Bernin-based Soitec (which makes engineered substrates and CPV systems) and Grenoble-based micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of France, together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE of Freiburg, Germany, have ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Electrical
The Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology ILT of Aachen, Germany has worked with RWTH Aachen University’s Institute of Physics (IA) to develop an analysis technology that, for the first time it is claimed, allows the structural ...
Tags: LED light, Laser system
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany has achieved record photovoltaic (PV) solar module efficiency of 36.7%, as measured under Concentrator Standard Testing Conditions (CSTC). This has been done by ...
Tags: PV Module, Solar Energy Systems
This year's Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco will see match2blue GmbH present for the first time its innovative ambiotex t-shirt. The shirt, which was developed in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated ...
Tags: Wearable Technologies, Shirt, T-Shirt
Match2blue GmbH will present its Ambiotex t-shirt for the first time at this year's Wearable Technologies Conference in San Francisco. The shirt, which was developed in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits ...
Tags: Biometric Shirt, Shirt
Wind turbines, like any machine with moving parts, can fail. They have a useful life span, after which the loading on the various pieces including turbine blades and tower could cause decreases in efficiency or, in very rare cases, outright ...
Tags: CeBIT, Monitor Oscillation, Fraunhofer Institute, laser
Robotics address the need for speed for product placement into packaging. Bosch Packaging TechnologyEnergy and raw materials are becoming more expensive, and consumers want to do more for the environment. This is forcing manufacturers of ...
Tags: Robotics, environment, innovations
Scientists and engineers in Europe are embarking on a quest to see if they can change the way young people at risk for becoming obese eat. Key to this will be developing unobtrusive technology that monitors how quickly or slowly a person is ...
Tags: young people health, obese eat, eating disorders, healthier pace
Calyxo GmbH of Bitterfeld/Wolfen-Thalheim, Germany, the largest manufacturer of cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar panels in Europe, says that its new production line has been inaugurated in a ceremony attended by guests including ...
Tags: Calyxo, CdTe, energy, solar panel
Researchers have demonstrated that microphones and speakers built into laptops can be used to covertly transmit and receive data through inaudible audio signals. Michael Hanspach and Michael Goetz, two researchers from the Fraunhofer ...
Tags: Network Air Gaps, microphones, speakers
The Group of III-V Semiconductors of the Instituto de Energía Solar at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IES-UPM) in Spain has reported a triple-junction concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar cell with an efficiency of 39.2%, ...
Tags: Spain, IES-UPM, reach, efficiency, triple-junction, CPV, solar cell
ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — Baden-Württemberg) in Stuttgart, Germany has raised its energy conversion efficiency record for thin-film ...
Tags: Manz CIGS PV, Electrical, Electronics
Europe's energy intensive industries are probably divided on the merits of power savings targets for 2030, but if the right mix of unambiguous and universal targets and measures can be agreed – and explained – opposition could ...
Tags: Construction, Glass, Glass Industry
Time is slowly running out for bulky television sets, boxy neon signs and the square-edged backlit displays we all know from shops and airports. It won’t be long before families gathering together to watch television at home will be ...
Tags: Solar Cells, Printer, Organic Lights