For fourth-quarter 2012, 5N Plus Inc of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a producer of specialty metal and chemical products, has reported revenue of $128.6m, up 6.5% on $120.7m last quarter but down 13.9% on $149.4m a year ago. Revenue for ...
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA has acquired the 150MWAC Solar Gen 2 power project from an affiliate of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Energy Power Partners and a third equity partner ...
Tags: Cadmium telluride, PV, electricity
MiaSolé of Santa Clara, CA, USA, a manufacturer of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic panels, and KSK Energy Ventures of India, a power development and generation company, have announced the commissioning ...
Tags: solar project, solar, photovoltaic panels
Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) is supplying customers with samples of Corning® Willow™ Glass, an advanced glass technology that promises to influence the shape and form of next-generation consumer electronic devices, while ...
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PacWest Equities Inc has acquired DayStar Technologies Inc's line of CIG Solar Technology, in a deal analysts have valued in excess of $55m. PacWest specializes in working with under-performing organisations and bringing together the ...
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Building solar voltaic cells from nanowires instead of standard metal conductors can increase the amount of energy that can be captured by a factor of 15, according to a new study by scientists from the Nano-Science Center in Denmark. The ...
Tags: Nanowires, Solar Power, Computer
Magnolia Solar Corp of Woburn, MA and Albany, NY, USA says that its subsidiary Magnolia Solar Inc has demonstrated a flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar cell with an energy conversion efficiency of 13%, rivaling the ...
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For 2012, epiwafer foundry and substrate maker IQE plc of Cardiff, Wales, UK has reported record full-year revenue of £88m, consisting of £69m (79%) from Wireless, £18m (20%) from Photonics, and £0.95m (1%) from ...
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LayTec AG of Berlin, Germany (which makes in-situ metrology systems for thin-film processes, focusing on compound semiconductor and photovoltaic applications) says that, in the next few years, the use of patterned sapphire substrates (PSS) ...
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China Quality Certification Center released new version of Solar Product Certification Rules for Photovoltaic Stand-alone System (CQC33-464141-2013), to instead of CQC33-464141-2009. The details are as follows. 1. Apply for CQC Mark ...
As China Glass 2013 is coming to us, all the Chinese glass companies are actively preparing for it. The 24th China Glass Expo (China Glass Expo 2013), organized by the Chinese Ceramic Society (CCS), will take place at China International ...
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As China Glass 2013 is coming to us, all the Chinese glass companies are actively preparing for it. The 24th China Glass Expo (China Glass Expo 2013), organized by the Chinese Ceramic Society (CCS), will take place at China International ...
Tags: Glass, glass companies, Glass Expo
Tokyo-based Toshiba Corp has launched the latest addition to its TOSLINK fiber-optic transmission device line-up: fiber optic transmission modules that can send and receive signals from DC to 500kb/s with low current consumption up to a ...
Texas Instruments has introduced its first fully programmable DC arc detect reference design. It is designed to protect high-power DC systems such as aircraft battery management systems, industrial factory equipment and photovoltaic ...
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Rohm Co Ltd of Kyoto, Japan has started mass-production of the BSM180D12P2C101 1200V/180A-rated silicon carbide (SiC) metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) module for inverters/converters used in industrial equipment, photovoltaic ...
Tags: SiC MOS module, Schottky diode, inverters