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Fraunhofer ISE Lays Cornerstone for Center for High-Efficiency Solar Cells
Oct 10, 2017Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany has laid the cornerstone of its new Center for High-Efficiency Solar Cells, which is financed by a total of €32.6m from the federal government and the state ...
Tags: solar cells, photovoltaics market
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Multi-Junction Si Solar Cell Efficiency Exceeds
Nov 12, 2016Silicon-based solar cells dominates today’s solar energy industry, while this technology has difficulty in bringing the conversion efficiency beyond 23% for commercialized solar cells in mass production. In order to break the ...
Tags: Solar Cell, solar energy
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Avancis and Sunpartner Team up on Solar Glass for BIPV Market
Sep 23, 2016A strategic partnership has been announced for the copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic cell technology of Avancis GmbH of Torgau, Germany to be used in the semi-transparent WYSIPS Design Glass energy-producing ...
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Peroboost Project to Research Efficient, Stable Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells
Jun 23, 2016Deposition 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 ...
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Sol Voltaics Achieves Alignment and Orientation of GaAs Nanowires in Thin Film
Apr 22, 2016Sol 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
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Soitec's New Step in Smartcell Project Will Raise CPV Module Efficiency Record to 38.9%
Jun 29, 2015Soitec 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 ...
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Sol Voltaics AB Demonstrated a 1-Sun PV Solar Energy Conversion Efficiency of 15.3%
Mar 24, 2015Sol Voltaics AB of Lund, Sweden, which provides nanomaterial technology for enhancing solar panels and other products, has demonstrated a 1-sun photovoltaic (PV) solar energy conversion efficiency of 15.3% using a gallium arsenide (GaAs) ...
Tags: GaAs, PV, Electronics
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a Multi-Junction Solar Cell Has Been Developed
Dec 3, 2014Bernin-based Soitec (which makes engineered substrates and CPV systems) and Grenoble-based micro/nanotechnology R&D center CEA-Leti of France, together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE of Freiburg, Germany, have ...
Tags: Solar Cell, Electrical
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Germany's VDE Testing and Certification Institute Has Issued VDE QT Certification
Oct 24, 2014Germany's VDE Testing and Certification Institute, in conjunction with partner Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany, has issued VDE Quality Tested (QT) Certification to cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film ...
Tags: Solar Energy, Certification
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Fraunhofer Achieved Record Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Module Efficiency of 36.7%
Aug 20, 2014The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg, Germany has achieved record photovoltaic (PV) solar module efficiency of 36.7%, as measured under Concentrator Standard Testing Conditions (CSTC). This has been done by ...
Tags: PV Module, Solar Energy Systems
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Power Electronic Converters Are Becoming Even More Efficient
Jun 5, 2014Due to new components, power electronic converters for power engineering applications are becoming even more efficient. In particular, silicon carbide (SiC) devices enable the construction of extremely efficient and compact power electronic ...
Tags: SiC Devices, DC-DC Converter
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Soitec Has Approved Financing for The Five-Year Gupard Program
Dec 27, 2013Earlier in December, concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) system maker Soitec of Bernin, France was informed that the European Commission (EC) has approved financing for the five-year Gupard program, which was launched in May 2012 to develop a ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics, PV
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IES-UPM Reported a Triple-Junction Concentrator Photovoltaic Solar Cell
Nov 27, 2013The Group of III-V Semiconductors of the Instituto de Energía Solar at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (IES-UPM) in Spain has reported a triple-junction concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) solar cell with an efficiency of 39.2%, ...
Tags: Spain, IES-UPM, reach, efficiency, triple-junction, CPV, solar cell
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Germany's Fraunhofer Ise Callab PV Modules Compared Its Results
Oct 9, 2013In a round-robin test, Germany‘s Fraunhofer ISE CalLab PV Modules compared its results with three other leading international measurement labs for photovoltaic (PV) modules: National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in the USA, the ...
Tags: round-robin test, PV Modules
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Modern Power Transistors Switches to Operate at Much Higher Switching Frequencies
Sep 26, 2013Modern power transistors based on gallium nitride (GaN) enable power electronic switches to operate at much higher switching frequencies compared with those based on silicon (Si). Advantages include increased power density per volume and ...
Tags: Fraunhofer ISE, Electrical, Electronics