Foxconn reportedly registers solar subsidiary in China Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Friday 28 September 2012]Foxconn Electronics(Hon Hai Precision Industry)has registered its solar subsidiary in China,according to news reports ...
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Continuous price falls prevent solar firms developing new technologies Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES [Thursday 27 September 2012]The trade barriers built up by the US and EU have yet to stop the price fall of solar products and ...
Tags: green energy technology, price, solar, solar wafer
Taiwan-based solar cell maker Gintech will raise NT$4.62 billion(US$157 million),consisting of a 5-year syndicated loan of NT$4 billion and the issuance of 5-year convertible bonds worth NT$620 million. Fellow solar maker,Neo Solar ...
Picture:Monolithic molybdenum target with inner diameter coating. PLANSEE of Reutte,Austria(which makes refractory metals and composite materials including pressed-sintered crucibles made of tungsten and molybdenum)is presenting ...
Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath,Germany has announced a repeat order from AZUR SPACE Solar Power GmbH of Heilbronn,Germany for two more metal-organic chemical vapor deposition(MOCVD)systems,to be dedicated to growing ...
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World record organic solar cell efficiency is the claim of joint research between Belgian lab IMEC and Brussels-based chemicals firm Solvay. 5.5%is the actual claim,from a complete solar module based on an inverted bulk heterojunction ...
Chinese solar companies have begun a round of belt-tightening as they struggle to maintain operations and pay down looming debt obligations,but layoffs might impede their ability to build market share if global demand for solar-powered ...
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(China Glass Network)The teachers and students from Southern Taiwan University of Technology designed a new kind of LED glass curtain wall which combined solar cell and lamps.It can save energy at day and releases at night.It is expected to ...
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PV Book-to-bill ratio of just 0.33 measured in second quarter of 2012,with SEMI seeing no near-term recovery. Heading south:the global PV equipment market The market for photovoltaics manufacturing equipment continued to decline in ...
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton,CO,USA,which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on copper indium gallium diselenide(CIGS)using flexible substrate materials,has announced the retail debut of the firm's EnerPlex solar ...
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China-based LDK debuts M3 solar wafer with 17.5-18%efficiency Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Wednesday 19 September 2012]China-based LDK Solar unveiled its M3 solar wafer with energy conversion rates of 17.5-18%,0.7pp higher ...
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India likely to start anti-dumping probe into solar products,says China media Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES [Tuesday 18 September 2012]India's government has received complaints from the domestic solar industry asking it to ...
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"Surfaces that define space can also be producers of energy,"says Kennedy,a visiting lecturer in architecture."The boundaries between traditional walls and utilities are shifting." Sheila Kennedy Image courtesy of MIT Sheila Kennedy ...
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In the fourth-round relaxation for restrictions on Chinese investments in Taiwan, the government may allow Chinese investments in hotels and sports facilities and remove the investment ceiling forbidding Chinese investors to own controlling ...
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Semprius Inc of Durham,NC,USA,which designs and makes high-concentration photovoltaic(HCPV)solar modules,will officially open its first production facility on 26 September 2012,in Henderson,NC,USA.North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue,North ...
Tags: Semprius, CPV, Triple-junction solar cells