Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes components, subsystems and systems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets, has been awarded a contract by ATK to design and manufacture solar panels for NASA's Green Propellant Infusion ...
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In an industry project with concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) solar system maker Soitec of Bernin, France, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Freiburg, Germany is developing a new generation of multi-junction solar cells ...
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Using a triple-junction III-V compound semiconductor solar cell (in which three photo-absorption layers are stacked together, Japan’s Sharp Corp has surpassed its record for energy conversion efficiency in research-level ...
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Researchers have announced a collaboration to develop an affordable photovoltaic (PV) system capable of concentrating solar radiation 2000 times and converting 80% of the incoming radiation into useful energy. The system can also provide ...
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Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers (as well as III-V epiwafers through its Picogiga International division), and Saudi Arabian investment company Khaled Juffali Company ...
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Boeing Company says that its subsidiary Spectrolab Inc of Sylmar, CA, USA recently set a record of 37.8% for energy conversion efficiency in a ground-based solar cell without solar concentration (i.e. without the common practice of using ...
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On 22 February, of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which manufacturers compound semiconductor-based systems for fiber-optic and solar power applications, was awarded a $7,364,902 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (funding announcement FA8650-13-C-5501) ...
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Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which manufacturers compound semiconductor-based systems for fiber-optic and solar power applications, says that its solar panels are powering the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) satellite that ...
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GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron thick, which opens up the possibility of a whole new field ...
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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 ...
Less than a year after acquiring it Sony Electronics Inc in December 2011,Soitec of Bernin,France has opened its North American concentrator photovoltaic(CPV)module manufacturing facility in San Diego after completing on schedule an ...
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Emcore Corp of Albuquerque,NM,USA,which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets,has been awarded a solar panel manufacturing contract by aerospace,defense and commercial ...
Japan's Sharp Corp has achieved what is claimed to be record solar cell conversion efficiency(for research-level non-concentrator solar cells)of 37.7%using a triple-junction III-V compound semiconductor solar cell(in which three ...
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2 October 2012 Altatech introduces AltaCVD Solarlab for deposition of PV materials Altatech of Montbonnot Saint Martin,near Grenoble,France,a subsidiary of Soitec,has introduced a multi-chamber chemical vapor deposition(CVD)system that ...
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Emcore Corp of Albuquerque,NM,USA,which makes components,subsystems and systems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets,has been awarded a solar panel manufacturing contract by Orbital Sciences Corp for the spacecraft it is making for ...
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