After announcing earlier in the week that it had added 50kW in signed projects to its PV system development and installation services pipeline, XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide ...
Tags: PV System, Electronics
China's Ministry of Finance said Monday the country's export tax on indium will be lowered to 2% in 2014 from the current 5%. The cut follows years of lobbying by Chinese producers, who claim the tax has encouraged smuggling. China ...
Tags: Indium Export, Metallurgy
At the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM 2013) in Washington DC (9-11 December), epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK, Pennsylavania State University and the US Commerce Department's National ...
Tags: Low-Power Tunneling Transistor, Electrical, Electronics
XsunX Inc of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA, which is developing hybrid copper indium gallium (di)selenide thin-film (CIGS) photovoltaic (TFPV) cell technologies and 'CIGSolar' manufacturing processes, says that it has added 50kW in signed projects ...
Tags: PV System, Electrical, Electronics
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules, has announced distribution partnerships with Osaka-based Kyodo International Corp ...
Tags: Solar EnerPlex CIGS, Electrical, Electronics
China's Ministry of Commerce on Friday announced the first round of 2014 export quotas for non-ferrous metals including rare earth and a list of enterprises eligible for export. Apart from rare earth, the first round of export quotas ...
Tags: China, Non-Ferrous Metal, Export Quotas
Soitec of Bernin, France, which makes engineered substrates including silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers and III-V epiwafers, and Intelligent Epitaxy Technology Inc (IntelliEPI) of Richardson, TX, USA, which uses molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) ...
Tags: IntelliEpi, Soitec, engineered substrates, GaAs
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) researchers have been studying the effect of using undoped vertical spacers in the source and drain contacts to reduce off-state leakage in indium arsenide (InAs)-channel ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, Mosfets
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 ...
Tags: Solarion CIGS, Electrical, Electronics
Brewer Science Inc of Rolla, MO, USA, which provides thin-wafer-handling materials, processes and equipment, has announced the first commercial placement of its Cee 1300CSX thermal slide debonder. The debonder was purchased by "an industry ...
Tags: Brewer Science, debonder, thermal slide debonder, electronic
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules that it integrates into its EnerPlex series of consumer products, has announced its ...
Tags: solar, energy, electrical
Researchers in Taiwan have used cadmium selenide (CdSe) quantum dots (QDs) to increase the power conversion efficiency of three-junction solar cells by around 10% [Ya-Ju Lee et al, Optics Express, Vol. 21, pA953, 2013]. The team was ...
Tags: CdSe CdSe quantum, Three-junction solar cells p-Ge substrates MOCVD
In its search for more advantageous materials and processes for manufacturing efficient thin-film solar cells, ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — ...
Tags: ZSW kesterite CZTS CIGS, Solar Cells, Electrical, Electronics
Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which makes lightweight, flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic modules, has announced the opening of three kiosk locations in Southern California for its ...
Tags: Solar, Electrical, Electronics
The Group of III-V Semiconductors of the Instituto de Energía Solar at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IES-UPM) in Spain has reported a triple-junction concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar cell with an efficiency of 39.2%, ...
Tags: Spain, IES-UPM, reach, efficiency, triple-junction, CPV, solar cell