Xidian University in China has used pulsed metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) to increase indium gallium nitride (InGaN) room-temperature channel mobility to 1681cm2/V-s, which is claimed to be a record [Yachao Zhang et al, ...
ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — Baden-Württemberg) in Stuttgart, Germany has set a world record for thin-film photovoltaic cell energy ...
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Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has provided its CIS solar panels for a 'solar sharing' experiment on Sado Island, Niigata ...
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Sophia University in Japan has developed a technique for growing laser diodes on an indium phosphide (InP) layer bonded to silicon (Si) [Keiichi Matsumoto et al, Appl. Phys. Express, vol9, p062701, 2016]. The researchers claim that this is ...
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At the SNEC's 10th International Photovoltaic Power Generation Conference & Exhibition (SNEC PV Power EXPO 2016) in Shanghai, China (24-26 May), Von Ardenne of Dresden, Germany (which manufactures equipment for industrial coatings on ...
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Ireland's Tyndall National Institute (based at University College Cork) is leading the European consortium TOP-HIT (Transfer-print OPerations for Heterogeneous INtegration) to develop novel technology that will address the challenge of ...
Tokyo-based Solar Frontier - the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has begun commercial production at its 150MW Tohoku Plant in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Due to using ...
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Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA - which designs and manufactures indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets - has been awarded a $4.7m purchase order ...
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For its fiscal second-quarter 2016 (to 31 March), Emcore Corp of Alhambra, CA, USA - which provides indium phosphide (InP)-based optical chips, components, subsystems and systems for the broadband and specialty fiber-optics markets - has ...
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Solar Frontier Americas, the US subsidiary of Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – says that the firm's solar modules have been ...
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A team led by Alexander Spott of University of California, Santa Barbara – in collaboration with the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and the University of Wisconsin, Madison – has fabricated what is said to be the first ...
Researchers based in China, Singapore and Turkey have used an extremely thin layer of silicon dioxide (SiO2) insulator as a charge inverter in indium gallium nitride (InGaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs), improving light output power and ...
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK says that during March it received record volume purchase orders worth just over $3m (to be delivered over the next 12 months) for its indium antimonide (InSb) and gallium ...
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Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – says that its CIS modules will be installed by California-based engineering, procurement & ...
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At the SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing (DCS 2016) event in Baltimore, MD, USA (17–21 April), Sofradir of Palaiseau near Paris, France, which makes cooled infrared (IR) detectors based on mercury cadmium telluride (MCT/HgCdTe), ...