National Formosa University in Taiwan has developed a liquid-phase deposition (LPD) process of textured zinc oxide on III-V semiconductor to provide improved absorption of multi-junction solar cells [Po-Hsun Lei et al, J. Phys. D: Appl. ...
Tags: ZnO, germanium solar cells, solar cells
South Korea's Hongik University has developed a nitride semiconductor device on silicon with an embedded Schottky barrier diode (SBD) [Bong-Ryeol Park et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p031001, 2013]. The device was designed as a ...
Tags: Diode, semiconductor device, semiconductor
South Korea's Hongik University has developed a nitride semiconductor device on silicon with an embedded Schottky barrier diode (SBD) [Bong-Ryeol Park et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p031001, 2013]. The device was designed as a ...
Tags: Diode, semiconductor device, semiconductor
Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA says that the first implementation of its new-generation dual-junction solar cell technology (augmenting its single-junction technology) has set an energy conversion efficiency record of 30.8% for ...
Tags: dual junction solar cell, energy conversion, solar cell technology
Solar Junction of San Jose, CA, USA, which makes III-V multi-junction solar cells for concentrated photovoltaics (CPV), has signed a co-development agreement with Amonix Inc of Seal Beach, CA, USA, which makes utility-scale CPV solar power ...
Taiwan-based solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafer maker Green Energy Technology (GET) will issue 100 million new shares to raise additional paid-in capital of NT$1 billion (US$33.7 million) through private placement in two phases. ...
Tags: solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafer, Green Energy Technology, GET
Researchers in Spain have grown high-indium-content indium gallium nitride (InGaN) directly on silicon (Si) substrates [Praveen Kumar et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol6, p035501, 2013]. The work was carried out at Universidad ...
Tags: InGaN, silicon, Optoelectronics, Microtechnology
ISSCC 2013 - 60th Anniversary Held every year in February in San Francisco, the IEEE's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is the world showcase for innovative circuit design. This is the 60th conference, and year's ...
Tags: Circuits Conference, capacitors, inductors
Gigastorage, in order to reflect increases in cost of polysilicon by US$1.5/kg to US$16-17/kg, has hiked prices for its solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafers to US$0.8 for models with energy conversion rates of 17-17.1% and above ...
Tags: Gigastorage, polysilicon, prices, polycrystalline silicon wafers
QuickerTek of Wichita, KS, USA, which provides power/solar products, antennas and RF products for Apple devices, has launched a 62 Watt version of its Solar Juicz solar power charger (e.g. for MacBook Pro, Retina display and MacBook Air). ...
Tags: QuickerTek, solar products, RF products, CIGS technology
Led by Ayodhya N. Tiwari, a team of researchers in the Laboratory for Thin Film and Photovoltaics at Empa (the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) has raised the energy conversion efficiency record for copper ...
Tags: solar cells, solar electricity, solar
In collaboration with Imperial College London in the UK and MicroLink Devices Inc of Niles, IL, USA, researchers in the US Naval Research Laboratory’s Electronics Technology and Science have proposed a novel triple-junction solar ...
In joint research with Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Tokyo-based Solar Frontier - the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules - has ...
Tags: Solar, CIS PV, solar modules, Solar Frontier
Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA has announced reference designs for what it claims are the world’s lightest and highest-energy-density flexible military charging mats. Alta fabricates single-junction gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
Tags: Alta Devices, military charging mats, Mobile Charging Mats, company news
XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide thin-film (CIGS) photovoltaic (TFPV) cell technologies and ‘CIGSolar’ manufacturing processes, says it recently completed assembly ...
Tags: XsunX, CIGS, hybrid copper indium gallium, solar cell evaporation system