Department of Energy articles & resources on Made-in-China.com

NREL Makes Available Database of Inorganic Thin-Film Materials

Apr 8, 2018

An extensive experimental database of inorganic thin-film materials that organizes a decade’s worth of research at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is now publicly available (‘An open ...

Tags: Thin-film, PV, Thin-Film Materials

PNNL-Led Team Develops Software Tools to Design Affordable Automotive Composites

Dec 6, 2017

Researchers from the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and experts from industry and academia have developed software tools, which can predict the fiber orientation and length distribution of ...

Tags: carbon fiber components, carbon fiber

University of Michigan Predicts Incorporating Boron in Ingan Increases LED Efficiency at High Power

Nov 24, 2017

Despite revolutionizing illumination, even top-of-the-line nitride LEDs are far from their maximum efficiency when operating at the high power needed for lighting applications. Logan Williams and Emmanouil Kioupakis at the University of ...

Tags: LEDs, LED Efficiency

HB-LED Market Growing at 10% CAGR to 2023

Oct 16, 2017

The high-brightness LED market will rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10% during 2016-2023, forecasts Occams Business Research and Consulting in its report ‘Global High Brightness LED Market Research Report Insights, ...

Tags: LED market, LED components

Suny Poly Professor Awarded $750, 000 by DOE to Develop More Efficient, Cost-Effective SiC Power Electronics Chips

Sep 26, 2017

State University of New York (SUNY) Polytechnic Institute says that associate professor of nanoengineering Dr Woongje Sung has been selected to receive $750,000 in federal funding from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop silicon ...

Tags: Power Electronics Chips, Suny Poly

Navitas Chosen by Poweramerica to Enable High-Efficiency, High-Density Mobile Fast Chargers

Sep 4, 2017

PowerAmerica — a manufacturing institute consisting of public and private partners from the semiconductor industry, the US Department of Energy (DoE), national laboratories and academia — in early August selected Navitas ...

Tags: PowerAmerica, Fast Chargers

CSEM, NREL and EPFL Raise Silicon-Based Multi-Junction Solar Cell Efficiency Record

Aug 30, 2017

The US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology CSEM (Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique) and EPFL (école Polytechnique ...

Tags: Solar Cell, Microtechnology

ARPA-E Awards $30m for 21 Projects as Part of Circuits Program

Aug 28, 2017

The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has announced $30m in funding for 21 projects as part of the CIRCUITS program (‘Creating Innovative and Reliable Circuits Using Inventive Topologies ...

Tags: WBG devices, electronics devices

Microsemi Awarded Contract to Speed Adoption of SiC Technology as New Member of PowerAmerica

Aug 23, 2017

Microsemi Corp of Aliso Viejo, CA, USA (which makes chips for aerospace & defense, communications, data-center and industrial markets) has become a member of PowerAmerica — a manufacturing institute consisting of public and private ...

Tags: Microsemi, chips

US DOE Awards Stion $1m for CIGSSe PV Module Efficiency R&D

Jul 24, 2017

Through the US Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative Program (which to drive down the cost of solar electricity and support solar adoption), Stion Corp of Hattiesburg, MS, USA has been awarded a $956,630 grant and, in conjunction ...

Tags: PV Module

Sol Voltaics Raises $21.3m to Commercialize 50% Efficiency-Boosting GaAs Nanowire PV Technology

Jul 7, 2017

Sol Voltaics AB of Lund, Sweden, which is developing nanomaterials technology for enhancing solar cell efficiency, has closed a record funding round of $21.3m (reckoned to be the largest finance raise for a European solar technology company ...

Tags: solar cell, PV

Lumileds Solid State Lighting Fellow George Craford Awarded IEEE Edison Medal

May 18, 2017

LED maker Lumileds of San Jose, CA, USA says that, at the IEEE Honors Ceremony in San Francisco on 25 May during the IEEE Vision, Innovations, and Challenges (IEEE VIC) Summit, George Craford (the Lumileds Solid State Lighting Fellow) will ...

Tags: Lumileds, LED

PowerAmerica Funding Speeds Transphorm's Development of 900V GaN HEMT Product

Apr 25, 2017

Due to funding assistance from PowerAmerica – a private-public partnership between the US Department of Energy, industry and academia – Transphorm Inc of Goleta, near Santa Barbara, CA, USA, which designs and manufactures what ...

Tags: PowerAmerica, GaN products

Connecticut State Agency Launches Recycling Program for Plastic Bags and Wraps

Mar 1, 2017

The Connecticut Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP) agency has launched recycling program for plastic bags and wraps. The state agency of Connecticut has started a new campaign to increase recycling of plastic bags and ...

Tags: Plastic Bags, Wraps

Shell to Sell Its Equity Interest in The Elba LNG Joint Venture to Kinder Morgan

Dec 9, 2016

Permitting continues for the proposed Elba Liquefaction Project, which consists of 10 small-scale liquefaction units to be purchased from Shell. They will be integrated with the existing Elba Island facility and enable rapid construction ...

Tags: Shell, Elba Liquefaction Project, equity interest

Department of Energy

Related Products