II-VI Inc of Saxonburg, PA, USA says that the Advanced Materials Division of its Performance Products Segment in Pine Brook, NJ, which supplies single-crystal silicon carbide (SiC) substrates and CVD-grown polycrystalline diamond materials, ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor, II-VI, SiC substrates, SiC Wafer
In the emerging photovoltaic technology sector, the energy conversion efficiency of perovskite solar cells have has improved incredibly quickly, from just 2% in 2006 to over 20.1% in 2015, according to IDTechEx Research's report 'The Rise ...
Tags: electronics, semiconductor, PV market
The share of total global solar photovoltaic (PV) production capacity taken by conventional crystalline silicon (x-Si) solar technologies is forecasted to decline further, from 84.7% in 2014 to 78.4% by 2019, as they approach their ...
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and University of California Santa Barbara in the USA have developed a wafer bonding technology for III-V materials and silicon (Si) using transparent conductive oxide (TCO) interlayers of ...
Tags: electronic components, semiconductor, TCO IZO Tandem solar cells
Morton Salt is launching food grade manufacturing capabilities at its salt production facilities in Grantsville, Utah and Port Canaveral, Florida with an investment of around $20m. The project will see the installation of a sea salt ...
Using its its proprietary modified Kyropoulos (KY) method, Monocrystal Inc of Stavropol, Russia, which manufactures large-diameter sapphire substrates and cores for LED, optical product and RFIC applications (as well as screen printing ...
At the ITF USA 2015 (Imec Technology Forum) in San Francisco on 13 July, nano-electronics research center Imec of Leuven, Belgium has reported a record 11.3% aperture-area efficiency and 11.9% active-area efficiency for its perovskite ...
Tags: IMEC, Thin-film PV, PV Module
For a third consecutive year, EV Group of St Florian, Austria (a supplier of wafer bonding and lithography equipment for MEMS, nanotechnology and semiconductor applications) has earned all three awards from VLSIresearch Inc's annual ...
Tags: EV Group, lithography equipment
The Cambridge University Eco-Racing (CEUR) Team will launch solar-powered racing car Evolution, which has been developed by a team comprising 60 students. With a view to spreading awareness about electric vehicles, the racing car will ...
Tags: racing car, Jaguar Land Rover
Tokyo-based Solar Frontier – the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – has completed the first installation of its prototype ultralight and bendable CIS thin-film ...
Tags: Solar Frontier, CIS thin-film, PV modules, electrical equipment
Tokyo-based Solar Frontier - the largest manufacturer of CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar modules – says that its subsidiary Solar Frontier Europe GmbH of Munich, Germany has opened an office in London, ...
At the start of this year, the United States Department of Commerce conducted a preliminary review of the anti-dumping and countervailing (AD/CVD) measures against Chinese photovoltaic (PV) cell imports for 2012 and reduced the overall ...
Tags: PV Cell, Solar Cell
The Center for the Polyurethanes Industry (CPI) announced that André Borschberg, one of the pilots and co-developer of the Solar Impulse solar-powered aircraft, will deliver the keynote address during the Opening Session of the 2015 ...
Singulus Technologies AG of Kahl am Main, Germany says that it has taken its product family of vacuum coating systems for solar technology to the next development level and introduced and installed inline sputtering system for copper indium ...
Tags: Singulus, vacuum coating
Soitec of Bernin, France has announced a new step in its SmartCell project by raising the record for concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) module solar energy conversion efficiency from 36.7% (announced in July 2014) to 38.9% Previously (last ...