Photovoltaic inverter design is now seen as the crucial element in solar power development, writes James Turner, and he discusses some of the challenges that can shape PV inverter design. Over the last few years the photovoltaic (PV) ...
Cleantech investment specialists MTI Partners has announced the completion of a £2 million investment round in Oxford Photovoltaics Limited (OPV), an Oxford University spin-out Materials/Cleantech company commercializing solid-state ...
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SEMI and the US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to enhance their cooperation on standards and roadmap activities for the solar thin-film industry. As a global industry ...
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Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which manufacturers compound semiconductor-based systems for fiber-optic and solar power applications, recently delivered its 1 millionth high-efficiency, multi-junction solar cell to Space Systems/Loral ...
Oxford Advanced Surfaces Group, a technology developer targeting a number of global markets including consumer and industrial displays, solar panels, eyewear and the electronics and adhesion markets, has announced a key addition to its ...
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
Registration is now open for the 39th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), a technical gathering for PV scientists, engineers and stakeholders. The 2013 event will take place ...
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Amid rapidly falling prices, mounting losses and massive operational costs, the upstream solar photovoltaic (PV) supply chain is undergoing major consolidation, with the number of companies participating in the market expected to plunge by ...
Amid rapidly falling prices, mounting losses and massive operational costs, the upstream solar supply chain is undergoing major consolidation, with the number of companies participating in the market expected to plunge by 70% this year. ...
Tags: solar, solar panels, IHS, polysilicon
For the second time the Intercontinental Hotel Beichen in Beijing played host to the Intersolar China Conference, a valuable platform for the Asian solar markets of the future, from December 11-13, 2012. 69 speakers from around the world ...
Tags: China, solar markets, experts, solar industry
As the photovoltaics sector transitions to emerging markets and away from Europe, analyst company NPD Solarbuzz is predicting a massive rise in demand for solar energy across Latin America and the Caribbean over the next five years. ...
Tags: Solarbuzz, PV Market, Latin America, CAGR
December 28, 2012 - A recent report from Pike Research finds the community and residential energy storage (CRES) market will experience sharp growth over the next 10 years, driven by the expansion of distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) ...
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After recovering strongly from 2009 with growth of 22% in 2010, the gallium arsenide (GaAs) substrate market slowed sharply in 2011, rising just 4% to nearly $360m, due to weak demand in RF circuits (handsets and WLANs) and in ...
Nanometrics Inc of Milpitas, CA, USA (a supplier of process control metrology and inspection systems primarily for manufacturing semiconductors, high-brightness LEDs, data storage devices and solar photovoltaics) says that its board of ...
Tags: Nanometrics, stock, repurchase, semiconductors
Joseph Armstrong Ph.D., chief technology officer of Ascent Solar Technologies Inc (ASTI) of Thornton, CO, USA, has joined the Strategic Advisory Council of Bye Aerospace Inc. Ascent Solar makes lightweight thin-film photovoltaic modules ...