Materials
Krayden Introduces Dow Corning’s 1-2620 Solar Cell Coating
05 October 2010POSTED IN New Products
Krayden, Inc., a leading distributor of engineered materials, debuts Dow Corning’s 1-2620 Solar Cell Coating.
SPI 2010: Range of New Products on Display
04 October 2010POSTED IN New Products
Christopher Associates is pleased to announce that it will display an extensive range of new technologies in Booth #333 at the upcoming Solar Power International, scheduled to take place 12-14 October, 2010 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angeles, California.
European Leaders Discuss Low-Carbon Technologies
29 September 2010POSTED IN Politics and Policy News
In a roundtable discussion sponsored by Dow Corning and co-hosted by Members of the European Parliament, Fiona Hall and Sirpa Pietikainen, political representatives and business leaders today provided a glimpse into the role that innovation and energy technologies will play in the economic recovery and environmental protection in Europe.
Global Clean Energy Congress Announced in Beijing
22 September 2010POSTED IN Business News
The World Photovoltaic Summit China 2010 will be held 18 to 19 October in Doubletree By Hilton Beijing, China.
Krayden Releases HumiSeal’s UV40-250 Solar Conformal Coating
20 September 2010POSTED IN New Products
Krayden, Inc., a leading distributor of engineered materials, introduces HumiSeal’s UV40-250 SOLAR.
Solar Cell also Generates Energy from Touch
20 September 2010POSTED IN Research
Researchers at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology, Kyung Hee University, and Sungkyunkwan University, all in Korea, have created a hybrid flexible cell that is both a solar energy harvester and touch-sensitive piezoelectric power generator.
Applied Nanotech Receives Funds for Thin-Film Solar Inks
17 September 2010POSTED IN Applications News
Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc., announced that it has been awarded a Phase III SBIR grant, in the amount of $1.6 million, from the US Department of Energy to establish a pilot production facility to manufacture and commercialize its proprietary ink materials for the application of metallic conductor layers on thin silicon solar cells.
Asian Conference on Product Durability and Performance for the Solar Energy Market
16 September 2010POSTED IN Business News
Atlas Material Testing Technology Llc and Underwriters Laboratories are pleased to announce that they are hosting the PV Durability Asia technical conference taking place on 7-8 December 2010 at the Crowne Plaza Century Park Shanghai Hotel in Shanghai, China.
Natcore Increases Thin-Film Growth Rate by Factor of 10
15 September 2010POSTED IN Applications News
Scientists at Natcore Technology Inc. working at the Ohio State University facilities have discovered methods to increase by 10 times the rate at which thin films are grown using Natcore's proprietary liquid phase deposition (LPD) process.
New Solar Nears Completion of Phase One in Development of Solar Tracer
14 September 2010POSTED IN Applications News
LadyBug Resource Group announced today that its subsidiary, New Solar Electricity Corporation, is nearing completion of Phase One in the development of Solar Tracer, its novel solar concentrator.
Better Solar Cells Might Come From Mixing Mismatched Elements
13 September 2010POSTED IN Research
In what could be a step toward higher efficiency solar cells, researchers from the University of Michigan and the Tyndall National Institute in Ireland have invalidated the most commonly used model to explain the behavior of a unique class of materials called highly mismatched alloys.
Apollo Solar Energy Ups Tellurium Manufacturing
13 September 2010POSTED IN Applications News
Apollo Solar Energy, Inc. today announced that it expects to initiate a large scale project to update and expand its current manufacturing process and production capacity for 5N high purity tellurium (Te), the core material of cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar photovoltaics (PV).
Saint-Gobain Solar Introduces LightSwitch Portfolio of Solutions for Photovoltaic Modules
06 September 2010POSTED IN New Products
Saint-Gobain Solar, a leading manufacturer of sustainable materials and engineered renewable energy solutions, introduces its new LightSwitch portfolio of solutions, including LightSwitch Frontsheet, LightSwitch Encapsulant, and LightSwitch Frontsheet Complete, as well as a design program for photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturers.
Report Includes Crystalline Si Solar Cell and PV Module Key Patent Analysis
02 September 2010POSTED IN Applications News
Solar & Energy has published "Crystalline Si Solar Cell and PV Module Key Patent Analysis" report which analyzes disclosed and registered patents in Korea, Japan, Europe and US from 13 July, 1976 to 26 January, 2010 as well as INPADOC and G-PAT patent database.
Deposition Sciences Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Awards
02 September 2010POSTED IN Business News
Deposition Sciences, Inc. (DSI), manufacturer of highly durable thin film optical coatings, announces the company is celebrating 25 years of providing reliable and rugged optical thin film coatings to industries such as biomedical, aerospace, military/defense, ophthalmology, lighting, imaging, life sciences, digital projection/display, telecommunications, and entertainment.
Greening The Solar Industry
24 August 2010POSTED IN Business Features
Solar energy is green energy, or so we think. It’s a relatively clean way of producing electricity, but the manufacturing of traditional silicon-based solar panels may present health and environmental hazards. Recent governmental regulations and heightened sustainability concern among businesses are giving rise to a new consciousness.
DuPont Expands Production of PVF Polymer Resin for Tedlar Films
26 August 2010POSTED IN New Products
DuPont announced that production of polyvinyl fluoride (PVF) polymer resin, a critical raw material used to make DuPont Tedlar PVF film, has begun at the DuPont Fayetteville Works facility in Fayetteville, North Carolina.
New NIR-Absorbing Dyes for Organic Solar Cells
26 August 2010POSTED IN Research
A series of new NIR-absorbing merocyanine dyes synthesized by researchers at Universität Würzburg and Universität zu Köln could find use in organic solar cell technology such as tandem solar cells or solar power windows.
Photo caption: Researchers used NIR-absorbing merocyanine dyes to create this transparent device that is on top of a university seal.
Frost & Sullivan Reports on Opportunities for New Entrants in Solar Market
23 August 2010POSTED IN Business News
According to a recent study performed by Frost & Sullivan, titled Overview of the Investment Attractiveness of Selected Parts of the Value Chain: Wind and Solar Power, markets for certain components of the wind and solar industry will present budding opportunities for new entrants, as growth rates are expected to exceed present manufacturing capacity.
New Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells
20 August 2010POSTED IN Research
Researchers from the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore have synthesized new acceptors that could help reduce the cost of organic solar cells and make them easier to produce.
