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Flisom Launches Lightweight Flexible CIGS Solar Panels

Sep 25, 2017

At a roll-out event for customers and partners in Zurich, Flisom AG of Niederhasli, Switzerland – which has the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) as a technology partner – showcased its ...

Tags: Solar Panels, PV

PEIC Panelists to Address Perspectives on Workforce Challenges & Opportunities Facing Power Electronics Industry

Sep 11, 2017

As part of the Special Session program at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress & Expo (ECCE 2017) in Cincinnati, OH (1–5 October), the Power Electronics Industry Collaborative (PEIC) – a national, industry-focused member-based ...

Tags: semiconductor, supply chain

Audi and Alta Devices to Co-Develop Solar Cells Integrated Into Car Roofs

Aug 24, 2017

Audi and Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA (a subsidiary of solar-cell specialist Hanergy Thin Film Power) plan to cooperate on integrating solar cells into the panoramic glass roofs of cars, aiming to generate solar energy to increase the ...

Tags: Audi, Alta Devices, Car Roofs

Short Supply of Mono-Si Solar Wafers May Remain

May 4, 2017

The ongoing shortage of global supply of mono-Si solar wafers is likely to remain until third-quarter 2018, according to China-based makers of such wafers. The China government, encouraging adoption of PV modules made of mono-Si solar ...

Tags: PV module, solar wafers

NCSU's Freedm Systems Center Develops Low-Cost SiC High-Voltage Switch

Oct 12, 2016

Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have created a high-voltage and high-frequency silicon carbide (SiC) power switch that could cost much less than similarly rated SiC power switches, it is reckoned. The findings could ...

Tags: NCSU, Low-Cost SiC High-Voltage Switch

Stacked Perovskite/CIGS Solar Module Hits Record 17.8% Efficiency

Sep 29, 2016

Researchers at nanoelectronics research center imec of Leuven, Belgium (a partner in Solliance and EnergyVille), Germany's Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — ...

Tags: stacked perovskite, CIGS, solar module

NCSU's SiC-Based Inverter Achieves 12.1kW/L, Close to DOE's Target of 13.4kW/L by 2020

Sep 20, 2016

Researchers at the Future Renewable Electric Energy Distribution and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center at North Carolina State University (NCSU) have used off-the-shelf silicon carbide (SiC)-based components to develop an inverter with ...

Tags: FREEDM, NCSU

VisIC Launches 1200V Family of GaN Power Switching Devices with Integral Iso-Driver

Sep 20, 2016

At the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE2016) in Milwaukie, WI, USA (18-22 September), VisIC Technologies Ltd of Nes Ziona, Israel - a fabless developer of power conversion devices based on gallium nitride (GaN) ...

Tags: ECCE2016, VisIC Technologies, MISHEMTs

Spectrolab Producing New 30.7%-Efficient Space Solar Cell

Aug 3, 2016

Boeing subsidiary Spectrolab Inc of Sylmar, CA, USA, which manufactures multi-junction solar cells and panels for concentrated photovoltaic and spacecraft power systems, says that it has begun manufacturing a higher-efficiency space solar ...

Tags: Spectrolab, Solar Cell

Peroboost Project to Research Efficient, Stable Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells

Jun 23, 2016

Deposition equipment maker Aixtron SE of Herzogenrath, near Aachen, Germany says that it is pushing ahead with research on perovskite solar cells within the three-year project PeroBOOST (running from March 2016 to February 2019). Aixtron ...

Tags: Aixtron, Thin-film

ZSW Regains Thin-Film Solar Cell Efficiency Record with 22.6% CIGS PV Cell

Jun 20, 2016

ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — Baden-Württemberg) in Stuttgart, Germany has set a world record for thin-film photovoltaic cell energy ...

Tags: ZSW, silicon cells

Veeco Wins First MBE R&D System Order From Chinese University

Jun 15, 2016

Epitaxial deposition and process equipment maker Veeco Instruments Inc of Plainview, NY, USA has received the first order from a Chinese customer for its GENxplor R&D molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) system. Nanjing University is scheduled to ...

Tags: MBE, GENxplor, Veeco

Sol Voltaics Achieves Alignment and Orientation of GaAs Nanowires in Thin Film

Apr 22, 2016

Sol Voltaics AB of Lund, Sweden, which provides nanomaterial technology for enhancing solar panels and other products, has confirmed the successful alignment and orientation of nanowires in a thin film. The firm reckons that the achievement ...

Tags: Nanowire GaAs PV

Perovskite Solar Cells to See Commercialization in 2019-2021

Apr 15, 2016

Hailed as the next generation of photovoltaic material, it is hoped that perovskite solar cells will drive adoption in new applications. While there are challenges to be overcome, perovskites offer several new opportunities for partnerships ...

Tags: Thin-film PV

NREL Collaboration Boosts Maximum Potential for CdTe Solar Cells to Above 1V

Mar 3, 2016

The US Department of Energy's (DoE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), in collaboration with Washington State University (WSU) and the University of Tennessee, has improved the maximum voltage available from a cadmium telluride ...

Tags: Solar Cells, vacuum-seal

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