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Integreat Project Yields New Approaches to LED Production
Jul 19, 2018Results have been announced for the research project ‘Integrated High-Volume Production along the LED Value-Added Chain for Large Wafers and Panels’ (InteGreat), which ran between December 2014 and February 2018 supported by the ...
Tags: packaging, LED product
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Fraunhofer ISE Lays Cornerstone for Center for High-Efficiency Solar Cells
Oct 10, 2017Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany has laid the cornerstone of its new Center for High-Efficiency Solar Cells, which is financed by a total of €32.6m from the federal government and the state ...
Tags: solar cells, photovoltaics market
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Audi Researching Use of Time in Self-Driving Car
Jul 19, 2017Audi has joined hands with Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart, Germany, to find out what is important for making optimal use of time in a self-driving car. The company started the 25th Hour, a project that is aimed at studying how to make ...
Tags: Audi, Self-Driving Car
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Sol Voltaics Raises $21.3m to Commercialize 50% Efficiency-Boosting GaAs Nanowire PV Technology
Jul 7, 2017Sol Voltaics AB of Lund, Sweden, which is developing nanomaterials technology for enhancing solar cell efficiency, has closed a record funding round of $21.3m (reckoned to be the largest finance raise for a European solar technology company ...
Tags: solar cell, PV
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Unilever Unveils New Technology Recycle Sachet Waste
May 15, 2017Consumer goods maker Unilever has unveiled a new technology to tackle the worldwide issue of plastic sachet waste. Unilever, along with the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV, developed the new technology, ...
Tags: Consumer goods, Unilever, plastic
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It's Official: Vinyl Has Outlived The MP3
May 15, 2017When the MP3 file burst on the scene at the turn of the century, vinyl was almost a dead format - the domain of collectors, DJs and those folks who stubbornly insisted “it just sounds better, maaaaaan.” Well who’s ...
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Albis to Exhibit Active Packaging Solutions at Interpack Event
Apr 13, 2017Albis Plastic is set to exhibit its active packaging solutions for flexible film applications at this year’s Interpack event in Germany. The event will take place from 4 to 10 May in Düsseldorf. The combination of EVOH and ...
Tags: Albis Plastic, packaging
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Multi-Junction Si Solar Cell Efficiency Exceeds
Nov 12, 2016Silicon-based solar cells dominates today’s solar energy industry, while this technology has difficulty in bringing the conversion efficiency beyond 23% for commercialized solar cells in mass production. In order to break the ...
Tags: Solar Cell, solar energy
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Continental to Show Dandelion Rubber Bus Tyres
Oct 11, 2016Natural rubber derived from dandelion roots is making its debut in truck and bus tyres and in components produced by Continental. The German manufacturer unveiled a number of products that contain this raw material at the IAA Commercial ...
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Liu Zhenya Visits Helmholtz Association, TUB, Fraunhofer IPK
Sep 28, 2016July 7-8, Germany --- Mr. Liu Zhenya, Chairman of Global Energy Interconnection Development and Cooperation Organization (GEIDCO) talked with Professor Otmar Wiestler, Helmholtz Association's Acting President and Mr. Christian Thomsen, ...
Tags: Liu Zhenya, GEIDCO, Christian Thomsen
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Aimplas Develops New Method to Produce Polylactic Acid
Sep 20, 2016Spanish research institute Aimplas has developed a new method to produce polylactic acid (PLA), as part of the European project InnoREX. The institute has used an extruder as a reactor to produce PLA from lactide without using metallic ...
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SUSS MicroTec Appoints Former Company Veteran as New President 's CEO
Sep 6, 2016The supervisory board of SUSS MicroTec AG of Garching, Germany, which makes photomask aligners, laser processing systems and wafer bonders, has appointed Dr Franz Richter as a new member of the management board (with a contract running for ...
Tags: SUSS MicroTec, former company veteran, ceo
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HEA2D Consortium to Create Basis for End-to-End Processing Chain for 2D Nanomaterials
Jul 20, 2016Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that it is working with five partners in the HEA2D project to investigate the production, qualities and applications of 2D nanomaterials. When integrated ...
Tags: 2D Nanomaterials, HEA2D Consortium
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ZSW Regains Thin-Film Solar Cell Efficiency Record with 22.6% CIGS PV Cell
Jun 20, 2016ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — Baden-Württemberg) in Stuttgart, Germany has set a world record for thin-film photovoltaic cell energy ...
Tags: ZSW, silicon cells
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ZSW Raises Its CIGS PV Cell Efficiency From 21.7% to European Record of 22%
Apr 5, 2016By optimizing various manufacturing processes, ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — Baden-Württemberg) in Stuttgart, Germany has raised the ...
Tags: ZSW CIGS Manz