SEMI and the US Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to enhance their cooperation on standards and roadmap activities for the solar thin-film industry. As a global industry ...
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TSMC Solar Ltd, which was founded in May 2009 as a subsidiary of the world’s biggest silicon wafer foundry Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Inc (TSMC), has announced confirmation by both TUV SUD and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) ...
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Solar design and installation firm Solar Alternatives of New Orleans and Stion Corp in nearby Hattiesburg, MS, which makes nanostructure-based CIGSSe (copper indium gallium sulphur-diselenide) thin-film photovoltaic panels, have teamed up ...
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TSMC Solar, the solar subsidiary of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), has announced that by using in-house equipment, the firm's monolithic CIGS solar modules have achieved a conversion efficiency of 15.1%. According to ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic (PV) modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe) as well as providing engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services, has acquired the 50MWAC Macho Springs ...
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QuickerTek of Wichita, KS, USA, which provides power/solar products, antennas and RF products for Apple devices, has launched a 62 Watt version of its Solar Juicz solar power charger (e.g. for MacBook Pro, Retina display and MacBook Air). ...
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First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, which manufactures thin-film photovoltaic modules based on cadmium telluride (CdTe), says it has been notified of an unsolicited "mini-tender" offer by TRC Capital Corporation (TRC) to purchase up to ...
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, has begun processing CIS films with ...
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The glass and materials industry of China is presently faced with various difficulties while developing, such as uncoordinated and unsustainable development, weak ability for scientific and technological innovation, unbalanced industrial ...
Guillaume d’Eyssautier, formely CEO of picoChip, has been appointed CEO of RF MEMS specialist start-up DelfMEMS. DelfMEMS has just attracted $10.5m in ‘B’ Series financing from CDC Entreprises, Iris Capital, Capitalaria, ...
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Led by Ayodhya N. Tiwari, a team of researchers in the Laboratory for Thin Film and Photovoltaics at Empa (the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology) has raised the energy conversion efficiency record for copper ...
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Registration is now open for the 39th Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC), a technical gathering for PV scientists, engineers and stakeholders. The 2013 event will take place ...
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Technology applied to photovoltaic systems is making great strides ahead achieving noteworthy performance levels versus the recent past. For example traditional panels will be replaced by photovoltaic facades making large architectural ...
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PragmatIC and Netherlands research lab Holst Centre will jointly develop qualified processes and materials for the Cambridge firm's imprint lithograph process - which forms micron-scale organic transistors on polymer substrates using force ...
Dresden University spin-off Heliatek claims to have measured a record 12.0% cell efficiency for its organic solar cells. The work was carried out in cooperation with the University of Ulm and TU Dresden, was measured by the ...