GaAs solar material maker Alta Devices boasts solar cells with an efficiency of 28.8%, but perhaps even more astonishing is the fact it can produce GaAs cells that are only 1-micron thick, which opens up the possibility of a whole new field ...
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Pioneer PV Solutions, a thin-film copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) microsolar company, has officially launched its operations. The firm will provide high-quality, off-the-shelf, compact solar solutions for rechargeable and DC power ...
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GT Advanced Technologies Inc of Merrimack, NH, USA (a provider of polysilicon production technology as well as sapphire and silicon crystalline growth systems and materials for the solar, LED and electronics markets) has acquired certain ...
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Ascent Solar Technologies Inc of Thornton, CO, USA, which manufactures lightweight thin-film photovoltaic modules based on copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) using flexible substrate materials, has appointed Robert Roche as vice ...
Panasonic said Monday it has developed a new system for artificial photosynthesis that can remove carbon dioxide from the air almost as well as plants do, as part of the company's push to join an industry-wide trend toward greener tech. ...
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Canadian Solar Inc.("the Company","Canadian Solar"or"we")(NASDAQ:CSIQ),one of the world's largest solar power companies,today announced that it will hold a conference call on Thursday,November 15,2012 at 8:00 a.m.U.S.Eastern Standard ...
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No end in sight for polysilicon oversupply,says Solarbuzz Press release;Jackie Chang,DIGITIMES[Tuesday 2 October 2012]Despite the fact that most leading polysilicon producers have been operating at a loss,polysilicon capacity is expected to ...
PPG Industries’ (NYSE:PPG) flat glass business announced that it can now manufacture heat-strengthened glass in thicknesses of less than 3 millimeters, which makes it among the first major glass manufacturers in North America to offer ...
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The assets were purchased from Twin Creeks’ lenders in a private sale for approximately $10 million and royalties that will be based on future sales. GT expects that Twin Creeks’ unique Hyperion™ ion implanter ...
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Royal DSM announced that it is increasing the installed manufacturing capacity for KhepriCoat anti-reflective coating. The additional capacity is expected to be on stream by the end of 2012 at the Chemelot site in Geleen, the Netherlands. ...
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“We should avail of the opportunity and switch to solar energy to overcome the energy crisis, ” he stressed while speaking at the International Exhibition and Conference on Alternative Energy and Energy Efficiency, organised by ...
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Energy was the topic of discussion this morning when Energy Division committees convened today in Chicago as part of the Glass Association of North America's(GANA)Fall Conference.Both the technical committee and advocacy committee met to ...
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The Sydney based innovator of LED and solar cell growth using Remote Plasma Chemical Vapour Deposition can now grow in the U.S., Europe, Japan, Korea and China. Australian clean-tech innovator BluGlass has announced that its patent ...
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Las Vegas,Nevada–Magtech announces its newly developed product family,LD1040 LED driver series.This series is to extend their product offering from 26-Watts to 40-Watts. This highly reliable and fully compatible design has a typical ...
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But figures were 20% up compared to the previous quarter Worldwide silicon wafer area shipments increased by 2% in the second quarter of 2012 compared to the corresponding quarter in 2011, according to analysis by SEMI Silicon ...
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