The Taiwan government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) on December 18 signed an agreement to transfer DSSC (dye-sensitized solar cell) manufacturing technology to Formosa Plastics. Formosa Plastics began DSSC R&D ...
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Solarion AG of Leipzig, Germany has begun the series production of its flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar modules, the first of which is a flexible solar foil directly laminated onto 0.7mm rolled ...
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Boeing subsidiary Spectrolab Inc of Sylmar, CA, USA has raised its world record for energy conversion efficiency in a ground-based solar cell without solar concentration from 37.8% (set in April) to 38.8%, as verified by the US Department ...
ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — Baden-Württemberg) in Stuttgart, Germany has raised its energy conversion efficiency record for thin-film ...
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Japan's Honda Motor Co Ltd has announced plans to discontinue the operations of its copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturing subsidiary Honda Soltec Co Ltd in spring 2014 and withdraw from the ...
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Green Energy Technology (GET), in view of tight supply of solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafers arising from increasing demand in China, Japan and emerging markets, aims to increase ASPs by 3-5% in the fourth quarter of 2013, according ...
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Thin-film processing equipment maker AVACO Co Ltd of Daegu, South Korea, which specializes in sputtering (PVD) vacuum deposition equipment (in-line, cluster, and roll to roll), atomic layer deposition (ALD) equipment, back-end-of-line ...
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Taiwan-based Motech Industries on October 17 unveiled its Sirius series monocrystalline silicon solar cells with a maximum energy conversion rate of 20.5% and will kick off volume production in the first quarter of 2014. Motech said it ...
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China-based concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) module maker Suncore Photovoltaic Technology Co Ltd, which is owned by Xiamen-based San'an Optoelectronics Co Ltd (the largest LED maker in China), has acquired the assets of Israel-based ...
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The average spot market quote for solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafer has risen slightly by 1.18% to US$0.86/W, while that for high-efficiency models by 1.09% to US$0.926/W, according to Taiwan-based maker Green Energy Technology ...
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Global PV production capacity is not expected to significantly increase in the near future and therefore there will not be any large PV capital expenditure before 2015, according to senior marketing manager Wesley Skinner for Applied ...
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Emcore Corp of Albuquerque, NM, USA, which makes compound semiconductor-based components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets, has received the Association of University Research Parks' (AURP) Innovation Award for its ...
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The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany, concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) system maker Soitec of Bernin, France, micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti in Grenoble, France and the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin ...
Tags: Fraunhofer ISE Leti Soitec CPV Helmholtz, Electrical, Electronics
China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has announced regulations on the PV industry, setting standards intended for healthy development of the country's PV industry. The regulations, which will come into force in ...
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Why can't we turn bio-residues into something constructive?? Extensive environmental damage and ever-increasing consumption rate of fossil fuels force the humankind to dig up substitute non-conventional sources of energy. Non-renewable ...
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