In its search for more advantageous materials and processes for manufacturing efficient thin-film solar cells, ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — ...
Tags: ZSW kesterite CZTS CIGS, Solar Cells, Electrical, Electronics
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules, has announced the opening of three kiosk locations in Southern California for its ...
Tags: Solar, Electrical, Electronics
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has started construction of a solar project in Kitakyushu-shi, Japan. Generation capacity will be 1.4MWDC, and operation will start in ...
Tags: solar, construction, PV, Japan
This review of strategies for improving the performance of polyamide thin-film composite (PA-TFC) reverse osmosis (RO ) membranes looks in particular at surface modifications and the incorporation of nanoparticles. Polyamide thin-film ...
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic modules First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA and JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp (Japan's leading distributor of oil and other energy solutions) have signed an agreement for the distribution of First ...
Tags: JX Nippon, PV Modules
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA says that it will invest about $100m in Japan to develop solar power plants. The firm aims to partner with Japanese companies to develop, ...
Tags: PV Power Plants, Electronics
Beijing-based Hanergy Holding Group Ltd – which is claimed to be the world’s biggest thin-film photovoltaic (PV) firm - says that, through its subsidiary Hanergy Investment Ltd, it has further acquired from the market a total of ...
Tags: Hanergy Solar, Electronics
Driven mainly by heat spreaders for high-power device thermal management, the diamond materials market for semiconductor devices will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 14% to more than $43m in 2020, according to the base ...
Tags: Semiconductors, Diamond Materials
Solexant Corp of San Jose, CA, USA has announced a new corporate identity as Siva Power, the culmination of a two-year transition to a platform that aims to create a profitable path to sub-$0.40 per watt solar power, along with what it ...
Tags: NREL PVMC CIGS, Electrical, Electronics, PV
Following iPhone 5S adoption of dual-flash LED, smartphones are expected to set off a new dual color flash LED trend. The market is very optimistic about growth in demand for flash LED. The two main supply chains for flash LED are separated ...
Tags: Flip Chip, Flash LED Market
China's leading photovoltaic (PV) producer Hanergy has reiterated that thin-film technology, as opposed to crystalline silicon cells, is the future of solar energy application. Li Hejun, the company's chairman, said most clean energy ...
Tags: Thin-Film, Photovoltaic
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules that it integrates into its EnerPlex series of consumer products, has announced the ...
When it launches the new Osram Ostar Medical, Osram Opto Semiconductors will be introducing the first LED component with a high color-rendering index (CRI) of 95 and the possibility of adjusting the temperature of the color white. This ...
Tags: LED Component, Medical Lighting
In applications such as operating rooms, high-CRI SSL products render colors naturally for more accurate procedures, and the new Osram product also supports color tuning. Osram Opto Semiconductors has announced the Osram Ostar Medical LED ...
Tags: Osram Ostar Medical LED, 95-CRI LED, medical lighting applications
OLEDs are already used in the displays of smart phones or digital cameras today. They offer an especially bright image with high contrast, but come with a serious drawback: typically, only one quarter of the electrical energy invested in ...