Solar shake-out claims Abound amid GE worries 03 Jul 2012 After$370 million in investment–partly through a DOE loan guarantee–the thin-film CdTe module maker files for bankruptcy. 20kW installation Abound Solar has become ...
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US distribution deal for spectral blood sensor 03 Jul 2012 PSS World Medical to market Masimo's latest multi-wavelength spot-checker for hemoglobin,pulse rate and perfusion index. Pronto-7 oximeter Masimo Corporation,the US ...
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US researchers are claiming the largest flexible colour OLED display using mixed oxide thin-film transistors - a 7.4in device for the US Army. "It meets a critical target set by the US Department of Defense to advance the development of ...
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The leading metrics influencing solar industry supply and demand(,supply and mamodule productionrket-demand)are forecast to come to within 8%of the second-half market demand of 17.2GW,according to Solarbuzz.This follows two years of ...
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The latest Caliper report on LED flood lights has indicated that the range of lumen output and available luminous intensity distributions must expand to better match conventional flood lights. The US Department of ...
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The US DOE has announced a$7.1 million fund as part of the latest SSL Manufacturing R&D program,but congressional budget cuts have affected funding for new core-technology research and product development projects.The US Department of ...
TüV SüD has been added to the list of approved testing labs for LED Lighting Facts.As of June 1,LED Lighting Facts will only accept test reports from its approved laboratories.TüV SüD America,part of the global TüV ...
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The 2012 Next Generation Luminaires(NGL)Solid-State Lighting Outdoor Design Competition has been opened.Candidate luminaire submissions are due by August 3 and winners will be announced at Strategies in Light in February.The outdoor ...
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22 June 2012 Sandia's InGaN nanowire template permits flexible solar energy absorption Researchers in solar energy want to convert as many of the sun's wavelengths as possible to achieve maximum efficiency.They hence see indium gallium ...
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Chemicals giant files complaint in Oregon court accusing companies of infringing patent awarded earlier this year. Who's shooting at SolarWorld? DuPont,the chemicals company that supplies a huge proportion of the conductive paste ...
21 June 2012 Stion sets aperture efficiency record of 14.8%for monolithic CIGS PV module in production Stion Corp of San Jose,CA,USA,which makes nanostructure-based CIGSSe(copper indium gallium sulphur-diselenide)thin-film photovoltaic ...
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The next generation of supercomputers will require a radical re-think in technology, as computer design begins to run up against the limits of Moore's law. Research is underway around the world to develop supercomputers containing ...
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TüV SüD has joined LED lighting Facts which is a voluntary pledge program sponsored by the US Department of Energy (DOE), to assure that LED lighting products are represented accurately in the market. And LED Lighting Facts only ...
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Digi-Key announces availability of Cree-based LED T8 demo kit 19 Jun 2012 Plug-in demo kit with dimming capabilities provides tube designers an evaluation platform for Cree ML-E LEDs. Electronics distributor Digi-Key is selling a T8 ...
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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 ...