As hemp makes a comeback in the U.S. after a decades-long ban on its cultivation, scientists are reporting that fibers from the plant can pack as much energy and power as graphene.Graphene is an allotrope of carbon, whose structure is ...
Taiwan-based makers have lowered quotes for polycrystalline silicon solar cells with a prevailing energy conversion rate of 17.8% from US$0.40-41/W in early June to US$0.33/W currently, slightly higher than the US$0.3/W quoted by ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has set a record for cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) research cell conversion efficiency of 21.0%, as certified at the Technology and Applications Center (TAC) PV Lab of Newport Corp. The cell ...
Researchers at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in Austria have combined two semiconductor materials, each consisting of a layer just three atomic thick, to create a new structure that holds promise for a new kind of solar ...
Tags: Thin-film PV, Electrical, Electronics
While the US Department of Commerce has set preliminary anti-subsidy and anti-dumping tariffs on PV products imported from China, China-based PV module makers can choose lighter tariffs imposed on 2012 instead of the new rates to keep their ...
Changelight Co Ltd of Xiamen, China has selected epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA as its primary equipment provider as it enters the market to produce gallium nitride (GaN)-based ...
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Samsung C&T's subsidiary in Taiwan began selling crystalline silicon wafers, conductive pastes, components and materials used in making solar cells and modules in the local market in the second quarter of 2014, according to industry ...
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Taiwan-based polycrystalline silicon solar cell makers, due to increasing price competition from China-based makers, plan to increase or step into production of monocrystalline models, which are relatively profitable, according to PV ...
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Japan- and South Korea-based PV makers, in an attempt to export in-house-made PV modules to the US market following US imposition of preliminary anti-dumping tariff rates on PV products imported from China and Taiwan, have talked with ...
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Inventec has seen an improvement in the operations of three PV subsidiaries, company chairman Richard Lee said at its 2014 shareholders meeting on June 12. The three subsidiaries are crystalline silicon solar cell maker E-Ton Solar Tech, ...
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Since the US Department of Commerce in early June imposed preliminary anti-subsidy tariffs on solar-grade crystalline silicon wafers, solar cells and PV modules imported from China, China-based wafer makers have lowered quotes from ...
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At the 2014 Symposia on VLSI Technology and Circuits in Honolulu, Hawaii (9-13 June), a team at Purdue University, SEMATECH of Albany, NY, USA (the international research consortium of semiconductor device, equipment, and materials ...
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Magnolia Solar Corp of Woburn, MA and Albany, NY, USA has entered into a letter of intent with Singapore-based Solar Silicon Resources Group Pte Ltd (SSRG) to acquire their assets and merge their business interests. Magnolia's subsidiary ...
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Solar cell maker Neo Solar Power has set a goal for its subsidiary PV EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) contractor General Energy Solutions (GES) to achieve 95MWp in total installation for PV system or power-generating station ...
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Delta Electronics is expanding its PV business by acquiring a plot of land in Japan to build a solar power-generation station, company chairman Yancey Hai has revealed. The Japan project marks the Taiwan-based firm's diversification from ...