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| Germany was proud of its supposedly future-proof solar industry and subsidized it to the hilt. But then the Chinese got in on the act and started making much cheaper solar cells.
| SunPower’s Porcelette Facility to Produce the Industry’s Highest Efficiency Solar PanelsDe Vernejoul, France - May 24, 2012 — Total and its affiliate SunPower1 (NASDAQ: SPWR), a Silicon Valley-based manufacturer of high efficiency solar cells,…
| New cell combines latest research successes PERC technology shows immanent advantages when used together with copper plating Mainz, December 12, 2011 – SCHOTT Solar AG has managed to reach an important milestone by combining several of…
| A novel solar cell based on Cu(In,Ga)Se2 was developed in the Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics (Empa, Switzerland).
| PVB films for solar modules – Façade-integrated photovoltaics or “Building-integrated photovoltaics” (BIPV) making use of thin-film technology facilitate the efficient use of the building envelope, enabling it to generate electricity.
| Her Majesty the Queen, head of state of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth,has awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category to DuPont for the continuous development of DuPont™ Solamet® photovoltaic metallization paste, a…
| DuPont and Applied Materials, Inc., are collaborating to advance multiple printing technology expected to increase the absolute efficiency of crystalline silicon (c-Si) photovoltaic (PV) solar cells.
| PVB is increasingly assuming the leading role among alternative encapsulation materials for solar cells as the alternatives to Ethylene-Vinyl-Acetate (EVA) Reliable and long-term protection of solar cells from external influences is a must for solar…
| Optimized sputtering processes significantly contribute to the efficient production of solar cells. Maximum material utilization, faster processes and top quality are key success factors for this industry.
| Scheuten Solar announces the start for the supply of Scheuten Multisol® modules for a 1 MWp project in Greece. Owner and operator of the project will be Ilioependytiki S.A., whereas Data Energy will undertake the installation of almost 6,000…
| France’s state-owned utility is partnering with an American solar panel manufacturer to build a 90 million euro ($128 million) solar manufacturing plant that would be the largest in France, the two announced on Thursday.
| You may have read the news about the DuPont™ PV5300 and PV5200 Series of photovoltaic (PV) encapsulant sheets.
| University of New South Wales' ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence has created the first silicon solar cell to achieve the milestone of 25 per cent efficiency.
| Taiwan Glass Industrial (TGI) plans to invest an additional NT$2 billion (US$62.7 million) in the next three years in its plant in Changpin Industrial Park in central Taiwan to produce glass products for the solar cell industry, according to data…
Global Solar Energy Introduces First Thin-Film Alternative for Silicon Module and BIPV Manufacturing
| New PowerFlex Solar Strings Simplify and Speed Adoption of Low-Cost, Highly-Efficient and Flexible Thin-Film CIGS Technology
| To meet the needs of the fast-growing photovoltaic (PV) solar energy market, DuPont on June 9, 2008 announced that it will expand production of DuPont™ Solamet® thick film metallization pastes at its Electronic Materials DuPont Dongguan Ltd. (EMDD)…
| Photo: Professor John Bell. (Credit: Image courtesy of Queensland University of Technology) People could live in glass houses and look at the world through rose-tinted windows while reducing their carbon emissions by 50%, thanks to QUT Institute of…
| People from Austria enjoy living in harmony with nature, particularly those who live in the region known as Styria, the green heart of the alpine republic.
| At the annual Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge in Texas, the largest solar race of its kind in the U.S.A., the Sundancer team from Houston, Mississippi, was victorious for the sixth time in a row.
| Basler AG, one of the leading companies in the field of Vision Technology (the technology of machine-based vision), is expanding its business activities in the Vision Systems corporate division (inspection systems for industrial mass production) to…