Sol Voltaics AB of Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden says that the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA), the national authority for energy policy issues, has provided a $6m conditional loan (one of the largest it has ever issued to a company) to ...
Tags: Nanowire GaAs PV, Electrical, Electronics
TSMC Solar Ltd, which was founded in May 2009 as a subsidiary of the world's biggest silicon wafer foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Inc (TSMC), says TUV SUD has confirmed that its latest commercial-sized (1.09m2) CIGS (copper ...
Tags: TSMC Solar CIGS, Electrical, Electronics, Solar
Widespread geographical diversification of PV installations will quadruple supply in five years, says Lux Research. EPIA's global solar forecast (click to enlarge) With high-profile bankruptcies, shrinking subsidies and a ...
Tags: PV, Electricity Supply
Recent advances in microelectronics technology and production processes have led to the rapid acceleration in MEMs and LED manufacturing, and breakthroughs in silicon photonics and printed/flexible electronics. But what comes next? The ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, LED
Making RFID tags affordable is one of the key drivers in the rapid development of Printed Electronics (PE). With traditional RFID tags being considered expensive, fragile and open to questions about security and performance, the concept ...
Tags: Printed Electronics, RFID tags, Packaging, Printing
On June 20, Vishay announced a new series of QPL MIL-PRF-55342-qualified surface-mount chip resistors that provides established reliability with an "R" level failure rate of 0.01 % per 1000 hours. Built using a moisture-resistant tantalum ...
Tags: Vishay Chip Resistors, Military Applications, Aerospace Applications
US-based plastics solutions provider Enso Plastics has announced two new biodegradable technologies, Enso Renew and Enso Restore, for the Philippines market. The new solutions have been launched in a bid to help manufacturers comply with ...
Tags: Packaging, Enso Plastics, Philippines
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services – has priced its underwritten ...
Tags: Solar Prices, Energy
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA – which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services – has announced an underwritten ...
Tags: Solar, Electrical, Electronics
To meet the growing demand for gallium in LED manufacturing in North-East Asia, specialty metal and chemical products firm 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada is to invest in a new gallium chemicals facility to be located in South ...
Tags: 5N Plus, LED, Electrical, Electronics
LANXESS has expanded its range of membrane separation elements for reverse osmosis (RO)-based water treatment to include new low energy (LE) elements. "The operating pressures of the LE membrane elements are around 20-40% below those of ...
Tags: Processing Machinery
An innovative UK solar start up that was spun out from Oxford University has taken a major step towards commercial production, after revealing it has set a new efficiency record for its solar glass technology. Oxford PV has pioneered the ...
Tags: Oxford PV, Solar Glass Technology
PPG Industries’ industrial coatings business hsd introduced the Ultrapax coatings system, a packaged system of pretreatment products and powder coatings engineered together to meet stringent standards for the protection of metal ...
Tags: Packaged Coatings, PPG
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA (maker of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules, which it integrates into its EnerPlex series of consumer products), says that its EnerPlex Kickr IV (a ...
First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement & construction (EPC) services, has been granted a power purchase ...
Tags: Solar Power Plant, Electrical