The Japan and the US markets directly or indirectly accounted for 50% and 30% of total orders received by Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell makers in 2013, according to industry sources. The total capacity of PV systems ...
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PV conductive paste maker Giga Solar Materials has reported consolidated revenues of NT$583 million (US$19.4 million) for December, hitting a record for the fourth consecutive month with growth of 13.4% on month and 211.03% on year. The ...
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Researchers have tried a variety of methods to develop detectors that are responsive to a broad range of infrared light—which could form imaging arrays for security systems, or solar cells that harness a broader range of sunlight's ...
Crystalline silicon solar cell maker Neo Solar Power generated December consolidated revenues of NT$2.406 billion (US$80.2 million), hitting the highest since March 2011 and increasing 3.12% sequentially and 300.18% on year. Solar-grade ...
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Neo Solar Power will expand its annual production capacity for monocrystalline silicon solar cells from 300MWp currently to 600MWp in first-half 2014, according to Taiwan-based newspaper Economic Daily News (EDN). Fellow makers Motech ...
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Researchers at University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) have used low-temperature metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) of p-type gallium nitride (GaN) to achieve intentional surface roughening of a solar cell device, thereby ...
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Thin-film copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) solar cell maker GS Hong Kong Solar has officially opened its new 150,000ft2 manufacturing plant, which has a phase-1, full-production capacity of 40MW per year. GS Solar notes that it is ...
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A group of researchers led by Hendrik Bolink of the Institut de Ciència Molecular (ICMol) of the Scientific Park of the University of Valencia has developed a thin film low cost photovoltaic device with high power conversion ...
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Oxford Photovoltaics, a commercial offshoot of the University of Oxford, has developed colorful and transparent glass that can generate electricity from the sun’s energy. This semi-transparent dyed glass that acts as a solar panel ...
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Notebook and server ODM Inventec on December 24 decided to add an investment of NT$470 million (US$15.7 million) in Inventec Energy, a Taiwan-based PV module maker, raising its stake ratio from 26% currently to 47.78% and making it a ...
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The total capacity of new PV systems installed around the world in 2013 is estimated at 34GWp, growing 9.7% on year, and global installation capacity is expected to rise to 40GWp in 2014 and further to 60GWp in 2015, according to the Bureau ...
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The Taiwan government-sponsored Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) on December 18 signed an agreement to transfer DSSC (dye-sensitized solar cell) manufacturing technology to Formosa Plastics. Formosa Plastics began DSSC R&D ...
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The European Space Agency’s Swarm expedition was launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on 22 November, on a mission to study how the Earth’s magnetic field and ionosphere vary in time and space. It started sending back data four ...
Solarion AG of Leipzig, Germany has begun the series production of its flexible copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar modules, the first of which is a flexible solar foil directly laminated onto 0.7mm rolled ...
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You might not know what "lattice-matched heterojunctions" are, but if you stopped at a new stoplight, played a DVD or used a laser pointer, you've made use of technology pioneered by Jerry Woodall, distinguished professor of electrical and ...