Taiwan-based solar-grade polycrystalline silicon ingot and wafer maker Eversol has landed EPC (engineering, procurement, construction) projects for installing ground-mounted PV systems with total capacity of 80MWp in Japan and expects to ...
Tags: polycrystalline, solar-grade
Quotes for a solar-grade polycrystalline silicon wafer have risen from US$1 in December 2013 to US$1.05 currently, and are expected to rise to US$1.08 in February and further to US$1.10 in March, according to chairman Guo Yan-ting of ...
Tags: Solar-Grade, Silicon Wafers
A new kind of paper that is made of wood fibers yet is 96% transparent could be a revolutionary material for next-generation solar cells. Coming from plants, the paper is inexpensive and more environmentally friendly than the plastic ...
When it comes to graphene and photovoltaics, for the most part it's only been a story about replacing the indium tin oxide (ITO) used as the transparent electrodes of organic solar cells. But last year Spanish researchers in collaboration ...
Tags: Graphene, Perskovite, organic solar cells, Electrical, Electronics
China's Commerce Ministry on Monday imposed five-year duties on solar-grade polysilicon imports from the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK). Starting on Monday, China will apply anti-subsidy duties of up to 2.1 percent and ...
Tags: tariffs, trade disputes
"Cool it!" That's a prime directive for microprocessor chips and a promising new solution to meeting this imperative is in the offing. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
Traditional photovoltaic solar cells have an inherent limit on the efficiency at which they can convert sunlight into energy. This limit—based on the bandgap of the material used and known as the Shockley-Queisser limit—is about ...
Tags: Thermophotovoltaic, solar cells, Nature Nanotechnology, low-bandgap
The capacitors of electronic circuits function something like batteries – storing electrical chargeThe amount of electricity present upon the capacitor's plates. Also, the act of forcing of electrons onto the capacitor's plates. See ...
Tags: AIP Advances, CCTO, AC, Charles-Augustin de Coulomb
Last week nanotechnology research institute imec of Leuven, Belgium celebrated its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1984 as a non-profit organization, imec has grown to be a multi-disciplinary expertise center in the fields of semiconductor ...
Tags: FinFETs, III-V CMOS, ASML of Veldhoven, TSMC
Epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK is to play a key part in a US public-private consortium of more than 25 companies, universities and state and federal organizations selected to lead the Next Generation ...
Tags: IQE, Power electronics, GaN-on-Si, CMOS
Yole sees $13BN CMOS image sensor market by 2018 20 Jan 2014 Consumer and automotive applications to boost market as pixel resolution improves. High-performance CMOS Analysts at Yole Développement have updated their forecast for ...
Tags: Yole, Technical challenges, CES, CMOS
Economists often measure rates of entrepreneurship by looking at the number of small businesses in an industry or a country. However, in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Magnus Henrekson and Tino ...
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Oxford Instruments is offering an upgrade option for its ALD equipment to apply a bias voltage to the substrate, adding further control of the energy at the wafer surface in order to tune the properties of the deposited film. While scaling ...
IBM is looking for alternatives to CMOS technology and Von Neumann architecture. Semiconductor packaging of integrated bipolar silicon is needed. In addition, 3D integration allows for strong I/O performance; 2.5D and improved materials are ...
Tags: I/O Performance, 3D Integration, IBM
The market growth is expected to be driven by increased demand for devices with exceptional speed, low power consumption, smaller chip size, and reduced response time. Information and communication technology (ICT) and consumer electronics ...
Tags: 3D ICs market, Electrical market