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Fraunhofer ISE Lays Cornerstone for Center for High-Efficiency Solar Cells

Oct 10, 2017

Fraunhofer 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

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

Multi-Junction Si Solar Cell Efficiency Exceeds

Nov 12, 2016

Silicon-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

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

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

ZSW Raises Its CIGS PV Cell Efficiency From 21.7% to European Record of 22%

Apr 5, 2016

By optimizing various manufacturing processes, ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung — or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research — Baden-Württemberg) in Stuttgart, Germany has raised the ...

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Solar Frontier's CIS PV Panels Installed Environmentally Friendly Transport Ship

Feb 14, 2016

Tokyo-based Solar Frontier says that its CIS (copper indium selenium) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) solar panels have been installed by Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha Ltd (K Line, one of Japan's largest shipping companies) on its newest ...

Tags: PV Panels, solar panels

Soitec's New Step in Smartcell Project Will Raise CPV Module Efficiency Record to 38.9%

Jun 29, 2015

Soitec 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 ...

Tags: Solar Cell, concentrated photovoltaic

Sol Voltaics AB Demonstrated a 1-Sun PV Solar Energy Conversion Efficiency of 15.3%

Mar 24, 2015

Sol 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

The Efficiency of Cadmium-Free Cigs Solar Cells Is Raised to Record 21%

Feb 27, 2015

ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung - or Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research - Baden-Württemberg) of Stuttgart, Germany has boosted the efficiency of cadmium-free copper indium gallium diselenide ...

Tags: ZSW CIGS, Solar Cells

Vehicle Fuel Efficiency with The Help of Supercapacitors

Feb 9, 2015

Unlike slow and steady batteries, supercapacitorsUnconventional internal design yields a larger capacitanceThat property of a system of conductors and dielectrics which permits the storage of electricity when potential difference exists ...

Tags: Supercapacitors, Vehicle Fuel

Researchers in Australia Achieved Record Solar System Energy Conversion Efficiency of 40%

Dec 15, 2014

Researchers at The University of New South Wales (UNSW Australia) have achieved what is claimed to be record solar system energy conversion efficiency of 40.4% (presented on 8 December at the Australian PV Institute’s Asia-Pacific ...

Tags: Solar System, energy conversion, Electrical

a Multi-Junction Solar Cell Has Been Developed

Dec 3, 2014

Bernin-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

Module Output Key to Reducing Cost of Solar System

Nov 21, 2014

Solar PV manufacturers are switching over to higher efficiency monocrystalline cells to increase power output, but for solar energy systems, overall module output is key. “In order to balance costs and the power efficiency of solar ...

Tags: Solar Systems, PV

Germany's VDE Testing and Certification Institute Has Issued VDE QT Certification

Oct 24, 2014

Germany'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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