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Sol Voltaics Raises $21.3m to Commercialize 50% Efficiency-Boosting GaAs Nanowire PV Technology
Jul 7, 2017Sol 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
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Sol Voltaics Raises $17m in Series C Funding Following Breakthrough in Nanowire Solar Cell Efficiency
May 13, 2016Sol Voltaics AB of Lund, Sweden, which provides nanomaterial technology for enhancing solar panels and other products, has raised $17m in a Series C round of equity investment and grant funding, led by new investor Riyadh Valley Company ...
Tags: Solar Cell, solar panels
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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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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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Researchers Have Used Strain to Alter The Light-Emitting Properties of GaAs
Apr 29, 2014Researchers in Switzerland and Norway have used strain to alter the light-emitting properties of gallium arsenide (GaAs) nanowires [G. Signorello et al, Nature Communications, vol5, p3655, published online 10 Apr 2014]. The researchers from ...
Tags: Electrical, Electronics
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Sol Voltaics Has Completed a Total of $15.6m (SEK102m) in New Funding
Sep 18, 2013Sol Voltaics AB of Lund, Sweden has completed a total of $15.6m (SEK102m) in new funding by adding $9.4m in an equity round to the $6.2m (SEK41m) loan (announced in June) from the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA), Sweden's national authority for ...
Tags: Nanowire GaAs PV, Electrical, Electronics
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Sol Voltaics Has Provided a $6m Conditional Loan to Further The Commercial Development
Jul 3, 2013Sol Voltaics AB of Ideon Science Park, Lund, Sweden says that the Swedish Energy Agency (SEA), the national authority for energy policy issues, has provided a $6m conditional loan (one of the largest it has ever issued to a company) to ...
Tags: Nanowire GaAs PV, Electrical, Electronics
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A Single Core Can Concentrate Sunlight by up to 15 Times in Intensity
Apr 15, 2013Scientists 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
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Sol Voltaics AB Has Unveiled Solink
Apr 11, 2013Sol 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
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Arsenide Nanowires on Graphite and Graphene
Dec 20, 201217 September 2012 Arsenide nanowires on graphite and graphene Researchers at Norwegian University of Science and Technology(NTNU)have succeeded in growing gallium arsenide(GaAs)and indium arsenide(InAs)compound semiconductor crystal ...
Tags: GaAs Nanowires, Solar Cells LEDs, Graphitic Substrates, Graphene
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NTNU Have Patented and Are Commercializing GaAs Nanowires Grown on Graphene
Sep 13, 2012NTNU researchers have patented and are commercializing GaAs nanowires grown on graphene,a hybrid material with competitive properties.Semiconductors grown on graphene are expected to become the basis for new types of device systems,and ...
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CrayoNano of Norway Has Grown GaAs Nanowires on Graphene
Sep 10, 2012CrayoNano of Norway has grown GaAs nanowires on graphene, a patented hybrid material with competitive optoelectronic properties. "We have managed to combine low cost, transparency and flexibility in our new electrode," says Professor ...
Tags: Norwegians, Grow Gaas, graphene