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A low-cost solar cell, which is made from reclaimed silicon, a by-product of the semiconductor industry, has been developed by researchers from Swansea University’s School of Engineering, in collaboration with Pure Wafer International Limited (Swansea, Wales). Read the original post:
A low-cost solar cell, which is made from reclaimed silicon, a by-product of the semiconductor industry, has been developed by researchers from Swansea University’s School of Engineering, in collaboration with Pure Wafer International Limited (Swansea, Wales). Read the original here:
SAN FRANCISCO—National Semiconductor Corp. said Thursday (March 19) it acquired Act Solar Inc., a privately held solar energy company that provides power optimization for commercial and utility-scale solar installations. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The rest is here: SHANGHAI, March 19 (Reuters) – Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp , China’s top contract chip maker, plans to split off its solar cell and its chip packaging and testing units and list their shares in the not-too-distant future, a company official said on Thursday. Read more from the original source: FREMONT, CA (MARKET WIRE) AXT, Inc. (NASDAQ: AXTI), a leading manufacturer of compound semiconductor substrates, today announced that it has become a charter member of the CPV Consortium, a global industry organization that supports the development and long-term success of the concentrator photovoltaics (CPV) industry, with the goal of providing a low-cost, reliable source of renewable energy. Concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) cells, referred to as ”multi-junction” or ”III-V” cells, offer significantly higher efficiencies than traditional photovoltaic systems. In addition to AXT, CPV Consortium charter members include RSS feeds and News widgets on Feedzilla.com At 39.7% efficiency for a multijunction solar cell, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in Freiburg have exceeded their own efficiency record of 37.6%, which they achieved in July of this year. The result was reached using multijunction solar cells made out of III-V semiconductors. III-V semiconductor multijunction solar cells are used in concentrating photovoltaic (PV) technology for solar power stations. RSS feeds and News widgets on Feedzilla.com At 39.7% efficiency for a multi-junction solar cell, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems have exceeded their own European record of 37.6% which they achieved just a short time ago. III-V semiconductor multi-junction solar cells are used in photovoltaic concentrator technology for solar power stations. RSS feeds and News widgets on Feedzilla.com A wafer of the element germanium, a semiconductor that is used as the bottom layer of highly efficient solar power cells. News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com University of Utah engineers devised a new way to slice thin wafers of the chemical element germanium for use in the most efficient type of solar power cells. They say the new method should lower the cost of such cells by reducing the waste and breakage of the brittle semiconductor. RSS feeds and News widgets on Feedzilla.com Advent Solar, Inc. has announced the solar industry’s first cell-to-module solar architecture that combines semiconductor manufacturing methods with optimized photovoltaic cell design. RSS news feeds and Widgets on Feedzilla.com – Mattress PC Magazine – The global investment powerhouse announced Monday that it will award $12.5 million in financing to Voltaix – a New Jersey-based provider of semiconductor materials used in the production of advanced photovoltaic cells. Free content on Feedzilla – Mattresses
Voltaix, headquartered in Branchburg, N.J., was the former ChemOvonic division of Energy Conversion Devices, from which it was spun off in 1986. The company plans to use this funding to build out its business to sell into the growing thin-film solar industry and sees particular potential in the realm of building integrated photovoltaics. However, not all thin-film manufacturing require Voltaix’s chemical products, and startups are working on printing systems that don’t require vacuum chambers or dangerous gases to achieve even and cheap deposition. Intel Capital has been increasingly investing in both cleantech and solar. The firm spun out SpectraWatt and led a $50 million round for the solar startup. Then earlier this month, Intel put some $37.5 million into German thin-film solar module maker Sulfurcell. Outside of solar, Intel invested an undisclosed sum into Grid Net, a smart-grid software developer.
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