Boeing Company subsidiary Spectrolab Inc of Sylmar, CA, USA has introduced 150mm-diameter germanium wafers into production (50mm larger than its prior 100mm wafers). The 50% increase in wafer diameter allows more than 2.5 times more gallium ...
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In June, Harvard's Clean Energy Project (CEP) plans to release to solar power developers a list of the top 20,000 organic compounds that could be used to make cheap, printable photovoltaic cells (PVCs). The list, culled from about seven ...
At the SNEC’s International Photovoltaic Power Generation Conference & Exhibition (SNEC PV Power EXPO 2013) in Shanghai, China (13-16 May), Singulus Technolgies AG of Kahl am Main, Germany outlined how it is able to provide all ...
Tags: Solar Panel Production, Electrical
Scientists from the Niels Bohr Institut in Denmark and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland have shown that a single core–shell p–i–n junction gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowire ...
Tags: Solar Cell, GaAs
During an automated packaging process, materials can shift and become unstable causing components to move during transport. An international manufacturer of solar cells turned to Glue Dots Intl. to resolve this very issue. The problem: ...
Tags: Adhesive, Cables, Automated Packaging
Barrier films for flexible electronics will grow at 39.8% annually (CAGR) for the next decade, said Cambridge-based analyst IDTechEx. In its report, 'Barrier films for flexible electronics 2013-2023: needs, players, opportunities' the ...
US-based GE Energy entered the CdTe thin-film solar cell industry in 2011. In January 2013, GE Energy developed a CdTe thin-film solar cell with conversion efficiency of 18.3%, surpassing the record efficiency from industry leader First ...
Tags: GE Energy, Lighting, Thin-Film Solar Cell
The launch by the European Space Agency (ESA) of its Proba-V earth observation mini-satellite in the coming weeks will represent the first time that a European-made device based on gallium nitride (GaN) will be sent into space. This follows ...
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Building solar voltaic cells from nanowires instead of standard metal conductors can increase the amount of energy the cells can capture by a factor of 15, according to a new study by scientists from the Nano-Science Center in Denmark. ...
Tags: metal conductors, Nanowires, Solar Cells
Boeing Company says that its subsidiary Spectrolab Inc of Sylmar, CA, USA recently set a record of 37.8% for energy conversion efficiency in a ground-based solar cell without solar concentration (i.e. without the common practice of using ...
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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 & construction (EPC) services – is acquiring TetraSun of ...
Tags: First Solar Thin-film photovoltaic CdTe, Electrical, Electronics, solar
April 8, 2013 - The construction of the photovoltaic power industry since 2000 has required an enormous amount of energy, say Stanford University researchers, mostly from fossil fuels. The good news is that the clean electricity from all ...
Sol Voltaics AB of Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden has unveiled SolInk, a nanomaterial that promises to boost the efficiency of crystalline silicon or thin-film solar modules by up to 25%, leading to solar power plants and rooftop solar ...
Tags: crystalline silicon, solar modules
Physicists from the University of Southampton have "convincingly demonstrated" the first steps in science that might one day improve LEDs and solar cells. Related to photonic crystals, in which light is refracted by regular arrays of tiny ...
Tags: Solar Cells, Electrical, Electronics, LEDs
Taiwan-based solar cell maker Neo Solar Power (NSP) has reported March consolidated revenues of NT$932 million (US$31 million), representing an on-month growth of 11.04% compared to February revenues of NT$839 million. The firm noted that ...
Tags: Neo Solar Power, Solar Power, Solar