20 June 2012 Cubic silicon carbide grown with quality similar to hexagonal SiC Cubic silicon carbide(3C-SiC)is considered to be very suitable for making highly efficient solar cells but the material quality has been poor compared with the ...
Tags: hexagonal SiC, Solar cells, Cubic silicon carbide, highly efficiency
Limited funds and lack of capacity expansion plans plague solar equipment sector Nuying Huang,Taipei;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Monday 18 June 2012] On June 13,the world's second largest solar equipment firm,Germany-based Centrotherm,issued a ...
Tags: Applied Materials, Centrotherm, Tokyo Electron, solar equipment
Emcore Corp of Albuquerque,NM,USA,which makes components,subsystems and systems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets,has announced that its Soliant 1000 commercial rooftop concentrator photovoltaic(CPV)system is now available for ...
Tags: Fiber-Optic, Solar, CPV, Energy
First Solar Inc of Tempe,AZ,USA,which makes thin-film photovoltaic(PV)modules based on cadmium telluride(CdTe)as well as providing engineering,procurement&construction(EPC)services,says that,as part of the Australian Government's Solar ...
Tags: FirstSolar, CdTe, Energy, Program
First Solar Inc of Tempe,AZ,USA(the world's largest thin-film photovoltaic solar module maker)has announced a collaboration and licensing agreement with Intermolecular Inc of San Jose,CA,USA aimed at accelerating the efficiency roadmap for ...
At the Intersolar Europe 2012 trade show in Munich,Germany(13-15 June),SoloPower Inc of San Jose,CA,USA,which makes thin-film copper indium gallium diselenide(CIGS)photovoltaic(PV)cells and lightweight flexible solar modules using a ...
Tags: CIGS, Solar, Electro-Deposition Process, Power
Soltecture GmbH of Berlin-Adlershof,Germany,which makes copper indium gallium diselenide(CIGSe)-based thin-film photovoltaic(PV)solar modules and supplies complete solar system construction solutions,says that it has achieved new champion ...
Tags: Soltecture, Modules, Solar, Electronics
The US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium(PVMC)–an industry-led partnership between international semiconductor manufacturers'research consortium SEMATECH of Albany,NY,USA and the College of Nanoscale Science and ...
Tags: CIGS, PV Roadmap, Solar, Energy
The Berlin Competence Centre for Thin Film and Nanotechnology for Photovoltaics(PVcomB)–a joint initiative of the Helmholtz Centre Berlin for Materials and Energy(HZB)and the Technical University of Berlin–has started operation ...
Tags: CIGS, PV Modules, Thin-Film Silicon
On 11 June at the LEDforum 2012 in Guangzhou,China,LayTec AG of Berlin,Germany(which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes,focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications)received the LEDinside'Aurora ...
Tags: LayTec, LED, Aurora Award, Test Equipment
Indium Corp of Clinton, NY, USA has named Robert Ploessl PhD as product manager for indium, gallium, germanium and tin compounds. Dr Ploessl will work with Indium Corp’s global team of engineering, sales, operations and R&D ...
Tags: Indium Corp, LED, Semiconductor, Solar
Value of leading infrared laser optics manufacturer slips 15%on weaker-than-expected guidance for the forthcoming year. II-VI stock drops 15% More than$150 million was wiped off of the value of the US-based optics company II-VI,after ...
Tags: II-VI, optics, infrared laser, optical components
Last month Electronics Weekly revealed a flexible OLED,sponsored by the US Army. The developers,at Arizona State University,have sent us a photo and a specification. The 480x360xRGB 7.4in(81dpi)active matrix OLED is built on a ...
LayTec AG of Berlin,Germany(which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes,focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications)says that LED maker Lextar Electronics Corp of Hsinchu,Taiwan has qualified its Pyro ...
Tags: LayTec, GaN LED production, Pyro 400, Germany
Hanergy to buy CIGS PV manufacturer Solibro 06 Jun 2012 Chinese renewable energy company to acquire the industry-leading thin-film PV unit belonging to embattled Q-Cells. Solibro's"Q.SMART"CIGS modules Q-Cells,the major German ...
Tags: Hanergy, Q-Cells, CIGS PV manufacturer, Solibro