China reportedly will announce the preliminary anti-dumping verdict against US- and South Korea-based polysilicon firms in first-quarter 2013. This will affect the supply chain, which has already been fluctuating in recent years. Most solar ...
Tags: Polysilicon Price, preliminary anti-dumping verdict, Anti-Dumping Tariff
The price of 6-inch solar wafers has hovered around US$1.05-1.10/unit in recent months,however,due to falling capacity utilization rates and dwindling demand in Europe,recent pricing has fallen close to US$1/unit. The price of 6-inch ...
The European Commission is expected to announce its position on the anti-dumping investigation requested by solar firms in Europe on September 6,2012.Solar firms around the world have been waiting for the announcement since Europe-based ...
At the new copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) facility of the Solliance collaboration platform in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, the first CIGS solar cells have been fabricated, demonstrating solar energy conversion efficiency of ...
Tags: CIGS, solar cells, Solliance
The weak solar market has been delaying technological improvements for solar firms. Despite the fact that N-type mono-crystalline high efficiency product may achieve a breakthrough that P-type mono- and multi-crystalline solar product ...
Tags: solar market, solar firms, new technologies
Japan-based solar cell maker Kaneka reportedly plans to move technology for heterojunction with intrinsic thin layer (HIT) solar cells to Taiwan, helping Taiwan-based firms to begin mass production. Kaneka is said to be discussing ...
Tags: HIT, solar cells, Kaneka, NSP
Japan-based Kyocera obtained a 3-busbar solar cell patent in Japan in September 2012. Some other Japan-based solar firms have been asking Taiwan-based solar cell OEM firms to change products to 2-busbar solar cells. This means products need ...
Tags: Japan, solar cell, Taiwan
China-based integrated solar makers have considered measures to cope with the impact of US anti-dumping and anti-subsidy tariffs, and some of them plan to sell solar cell production equipment to Taiwan-based makers, according to industry ...
Tags: solar makers, solar cell, solar equipment, Taiwan
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 ...
"Forum of Gold-sun Demonstration Project Work"was held recently in Changzhou jointly by Ministry of Finance,Ministry of Science and Technology,Ministry of Housing and Urban-rural Development and National Energy Administration.The forum aims ...
Tags: Changzhou, solar cell, PV application
Taiwan-based solar cell maker Gintech has revealed that the firm has cut down its workforce by 40 employees.The firm added that the anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation in the US previously helped increase OEM orders from China and ...
Some solar makers believe the merger between Neo Solar Power (NSP) and DelSolar, a subsidiary of Delta Electronics, will not affect the industry significantly. Nevertheless, this will set a good example for the industry to increase the ...
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Taiwan-based Walsin Lihwa Holdings announced on December 5, 2012 that the firm is about to be sued by its partner, Germany-based Solarion AG, for violating a technology cooperation contract between the two. The announcement also noted that ...
Tags: lawsuit, solar cell, company cooperation
Sphelar Power Corpsssoration has successfully prototyped,with the Industrial Technology Center of Fukui Prefecture,an energy-harvesting textile where spherical solar cells(Sphelar cells)are interweaved. This result was delivered from an ...
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 ...
Tags: Sharp, solar cell conversion efficiency, triple-junction cell