Magnolia Solar Corp of Woburn, MA and Albany, NY, USA says that on 25 November the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued its subsidiary Magnolia Solar Inc a patent (US Patent No. 8,895,838) describing an improved ...
Tags: multi-junction solar cell, absorber materials, Electrical
Stanford University's Precourt Institute for Energy, the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center and the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy have awarded eight seed grants totaling about $1.5m for new research in clean technology and energy ...
The worldwide solar market demand in 2014 was approximately at 44GW, even though the China market did not perform as well as expectations, due to the continuous growth in Japan and the U.S. market, the supply and demand remained stable. At ...
Tags: Solar Demand, Solar Cell
Researchers at The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia) have achieved what is claimed to be record solar system energy conversion efficiency of 40.4% (presented on 8 December at the Australian PV Institute’s Asia-Pacific ...
Tags: Solar System, energy conversion, Electrical
Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optics market, has completed the sale of its Space Photovoltaics business (announced on 17 September) to SolAero Technologies ...
Tags: fiber-optics market, solar cells, Electrical
Evonik has started up two new plant units for the production of cat its multi-user site in Wesseling. With triallyl cyanurate (TAC) and triallyl isocyanurate (TAICROS), the company now offers two high-quality crosslinking activators for use ...
Tags: multi-user site, Construction
Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and space solar power markets, says that a special meeting of its shareholders has approved the sale of its Space ...
The China government, viewing that total PV system installations in the country in 2014 are expected to be significantly short of target, is likely to extend the applicability of 2014 feed-in tariff rates to February 2015 to boost ...
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Boeing subsidiary Spectrolab Inc of Sylmar, CA, USA, which manufactures multi-junction solar cells and panels for concentrated photovoltaic and spacecraft power systems, says it is the first company to produce 4 million gallium arsenide ...
Tags: Spectrolab, Space Solar Cell
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
Crystalline-silicon solar cell maker Gintech Energy has said it has stopped using front-side PV silver paste produced by Giga Solar Materials to avoid potential legal disputes. The Taiwan-based cell maker said the decision was made in ...
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Neo Solar Power on December 1 announced that it has obtained orders for 400MWp of solar cells from Canadian Solar, a Canada-based PV module and PV system maker, for delivery in 2015. Neo Solar became a solar cell supplier for Canadian ...
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The American apparel retail company Tommy Hilfiger has joined hands with the New York-based solar structure designer and manufacture Pvilion to create a Solar Powered Jacket for the 2014 holiday season. The two limited-edition woolen ...
Tags: Solar-Powered Jackets, Apparel
As mainstream PV power generation is expected to shift from ground-mounted stations to rooftop systems in Europe, the US, Japan and China in 2015, and solar cells used in rooftop PV systems require high energy conversion rates, global ...
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Midsummer AB of Jarfalla, Sweden, a supplier of production lines for manufacturing flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar cells, has halved the thickness of its CIGS layer, to 800nm (less than ...
Tags: CIGS Layer Thickness, Electrical