Jobs lost despite booming PV shipments in the US 01 Oct 2012 Total PV module shipments in the US grew 43%in 2011 but employment fell by 10%,states a Department of Energy report.US PV module shipments versus price declines. A new report ...
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2 October 2012 Altatech introduces AltaCVD Solarlab for deposition of PV materials Altatech of Montbonnot Saint Martin,near Grenoble,France,a subsidiary of Soitec,has introduced a multi-chamber chemical vapor deposition(CVD)system that ...
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PV Book-to-bill ratio of just 0.33 measured in second quarter of 2012,with SEMI seeing no near-term recovery. Heading south:the global PV equipment market The market for photovoltaics manufacturing equipment continued to decline in ...
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The PV products anti-dumping investigation launched by EU has become the largest trade dispute between China and the Europe. Analyst of the industry pointed out that the anti-dumping investigation has brought death warrant to Chinese PV ...
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Graphic:Current density versus voltage for CZTS PV cell. In partnership with Tokyo-based Solar Frontier(the world's largest manufacturer of copper indium selenium thin-film photovoltaic solar modules),Tokyo Ohka Kogyo(TOK)and DelSolar(a ...
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Intevac Photonics orders hit new high 01 Aug 2012 Record bookings largely due to$10 million deal to fit Apache helicopters with night-vision cameras. Intevac's"Night Port" Intevac Photonics,the optics-focused subsidiary of the ...
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Fully charged:Lockheed Martin's Stalker Wireless power transmission,a notion whose principles were pondered by Nikola Tesla and Arthur C.Clarke amongst others,may soon be put to practical use as a means to extend the flying time of ...
Tags: Wireless power transmission, extend the flying time of UAVs
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 ...
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 ...
'SCALENANO'consortium led by Barcelona energy research center looking to replace indium and print cells with nano-ink. IBM kesterite cells The Catalonia Institute for Energy Research(IREC)in Barcelona is to head up a 10.3million ...
Tags: CIGS Cells, IREC, solar cells, SCALENANO project, IBM Research, IMPT
Department of Commerce backs SolarWorld-led complaint in preliminary determination;Dow Corning and Hemlock label decision'devastating'. Suntech PV cell fabrication An investigation by the US Department of Commerce has found that ...
Growing indignation on the part of leading Chinese PV manufacturers in relation to the ongoing trade dispute has spurred senior executives of 14 leading producers to gather and set out a coordinated plan of defence. The plan is in response ...
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Growing indignation on the part of leading Chinese PV manufacturers in relation to the ongoing trade dispute has spurred senior executives of 14 leading producers to gather and set out a coordinated plan of defence. The plan is in response ...
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Trina Solar, a China-based integrated manufacturer of solar photovoltaic (PV) products from the production of ingots, wafers and cells to the assembly of PV modules, has announced its financial results for the third quarter of 2011. Net ...
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In third-quarter 2011, the consolidated PV book-to-bill ratio fell to an all-time low of 0.44, according to Solarbuzz. This effectively signals an end point to the most recent PV equipment spending cycle: one that was characterized by ...
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