Due to rapid decline in cell prices, the mono and multi-Si wafer market witnessed weaker prices. Taiwanese manufacturers couldn’t tolerate prices above US$ 0.72/pc, which put pressures on wafer manufacturers. The average trading price ...
Tags: solar cell, PV
Boeing subsidiary Spectrolab Inc of Sylmar, CA, USA, which manufactures multi-junction solar cells and panels for concentrated photovoltaic and spacecraft power systems, says that it has begun manufacturing a higher-efficiency space solar ...
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Coca-Cola Group bottler Société des Boissons Gazeuses du Souss (SBGS) has selected Sacmi solutions for its ultra-clean filling process. SBGS will produce bottles of one of Moocco's biggest water brands Ciel using Sacmi's ...
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In a ceremony in Nagoya, Japan on 8 August, Gerald Stringfellow, who is a Distinguished Professor in the University of Utah's departments of materials science & engineering and electrical & computer engineering (and dean of the College of ...
Tags: LEDs, LED crystals
Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has received an order for a Compact 21T MBE research system for delivery in 2016 to a laboratory in ...
Riber S.A. of Bezons, France, which manufactures molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems as well as evaporation sources and effusion cells, has reported a 23% rise in revenue from €5.7m in first-half 2015 to €7m in first-half 2016, ...
Tags: Riber MBE, molecular beam epitaxy
Hyundai and the US Department of Energy (DOE) are extending their fuel cell vehicle confirmation program, originally from 2013 through 2015, to its second phase, from 2016 through 2017. The program involves Hyundai providing a number of ...
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Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that optoelectronics manufacturer Xiamen Changelight Co Ltd of Xiamen, Fujian Province, China has finalized qualification of its AIX R6 Close Coupled ...
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US-based Ancera has raised $8.9m in Series A funding to develop technology that assists food producers to identity contaminants quickly. The funding round is led by existing investor Glass Capital, with participation from Packers ...
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Hanergy Holding Group launched four full solar power vehicles at a grand ceremony arranged outside its headquarters in Beijing. Over 4,000 guests from all sectors of society attended the event. A sports car named "Hanergy Solar R" made ...
With the rapid growth of the domestic electric vehicle industry, as the key material of electric vehicle batteries, lithium has become hot. The price per ton from 2015 at the beginning of a few million Yuan has been up to hundreds of ...
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and General Electric Global Research Center in the USA "experimentally demonstrate, for the first time, bi-directional 4H-silicon carbide planar gate, insulated-gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) fabricated on ...
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A new research has found a way to reduce Salmonella bacteria in meat products by deploying an old technology that uses natural bacteria predators, called bacteriophages. The new technique has been developed by Assistant Professor Amilton ...
Tags: Salmonella bacteria, bacteriophages, food borne illnesses
Most would not think that a diet lacking in fibre might be the cause of allergies, but success from Monash University have found evidence supporting this linkage. Studying allergies, scientists at Monash University in Melbourne discovered ...
Tags: fibre, allergies, immune system
The United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC), a collaborative organization of FCA US LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors, has awarded a $4m contract to SiNode Systems in Chicago, Illinois, for development of advanced anode ...
Tags: USABC, Ford Motor, Electric Vehicles