Sharp Corporation has completed installation of a new 2nd-generation thin-film solar cell production line at its Katsuragi Plant (Katsuragi City, Nara Prefecture) using large-size glass ...
... light directly to the device’s electron-attracting electrode – and this scenario could boost thin-film solar cell efficiency, according to research recently published in NanoLetters.
The new design ...
... roofs with large, flat arrays of cylindrical thin-film solar cells (think massive installations of fluorescent tubes, only absorbing light rather than emitting it), Fremont, Calif.–based ...
... as Gillner knows, "This could be higher, because thin film solar cells can be used anywhere that non-transparent ... pulse laser is an ideal tool for ablating thin layers: It works very precisely, does ...
... State Optics at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität in Jena, Germany, is a place where scientists are hard at work looking for ways to improve current solar cell technology.
... would use less raw materials than silicon solar panels. But unfortunately, manufacturing of CIGS panels on ... significantly."
The copper-indium-diselenide thin-film solar cell developed by Yang's team ...
Scientists have produced thin film solar cells made from compound semiconductors which are already reaching a 12 percent efficiency. Thin film solar cells are considered the next generation of ...
... CMC Magnetics added a new product to its line: thin-film solar cells. The company's subsidiary, Sunwell, now churns out about 10,000 solar panels a month--feeding a surging global demand ...
Japan's Sanyo Electric Co. and Nippon Oil Corp. said Friday they would collaborate to produce thin-film solar cells for large-scale power generation.
Vikram Dalal and a team of Iowa State University researchers are trying to improve thin film solar cells. A $1.69 million grant from the Iowa Power Fund is ...
... IMRE) protects sensitive devices like organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) and solar ... includes a collaboration agreement with G24Innovations, a thin film solar cell manufacturer to look into developing ...
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Using pulsed thermal processing, low-cost thin-film solar cells could see efficiency gains of up to ...
... as a cleaning agent during the manufacture of thin-film solar cells, flat panel monitors and other electronics. The first measurements of nitrogen trifluoride, reported in October, has ...
... development -- specifically green energy development. With new advances in physics allowing for such items as organic thin-film solar cells, it appears that energy technology could be ...
... interconnects for high performance computer chips, extremely sensitive (bio)molecular sensors, and highly efficient thin-film solar cells. IMEC`s results are published in the May ...