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Adding Silver to Plastic to Make Cheap, Flexible Solar Cells

Researchers at Ohio State University are experimenting with polymer semiconductors that absorb the sun’s energy and generate electricity. The goal: lighter, cheaper, and more-flexible solar cells

8 Oct 2009

"Opportunities for Printed Silicon" Report Released by NanoMarkets Forecasting Used of Printed Silicon in Solar Cells, Displays and Other Devices

NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm based here, has just released its newest report, "Opportunities for Printed Silicon: 2009 to 2016." The report continues NanoMarkets' extensive industry coverage...

8 Oct 2009

Low Cost But High Efficiency Solar Cell Developed by IMEC and BP Solar

IMEC, one of the leading European research centers in photovoltaics, and BP Solar, a leading energy company, demonstrated a 18% conversion efficiency for silicon solar cells made of BP Solar’s newly developed Mono2 silicon

7 Oct 2009

IMEC Produces Solution Processed Polymer Organic Solar Cell

IMEC has demonstrated a fully solution-processed organic solar cell with a spray-coated active layer and a metal top contact spray-coated on top

7 Oct 2009

Solar Collectors Being Insulated Using Basotect from BASF

The international heating systems manufacturer Viessmann, Germany, now uses BasotectR to insulate its solar collectors. The light, flame-retardant melamine resin foam produced by BASF is fitted to the side walls and the rear of flat-plate collectors

7 Oct 2009

Joint French Research Team Developed for Thin Film Solar Power

Total and Laboratoire de Physique des Interfaces et des Couches Minces (LPICM), a joint R&D research team between the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and France’s Ecole Polytechnique engineering school, today announce the creation of a joint research team focusing on thin film technologies for photovoltaic solar applications

1 Oct 2009

From Printed Flexible Solar Cells to Biomedical Products, CSIRO Celebrates Breakthrough Technology

Flexible plastic solar cells that can be printed like money, carbon fibres so thin they can be spun into yarns and a raft of new biomedical products to combating illness and injury are just some of the research breakthroughs being developed by the new CSIRO National Research Flagship for Future Manufacturing launched today

1 Oct 2009

Air Products Signs Supply Contract for Thin Film Photovoltaics Plant

Air Products today announced it has signed, through its subsidiary Air Products San Fu Co. Ltd. in Taiwan, a long-term contract to provide nitrogen to NexPower Technology Corporation (NexPower), at its new thin-film photovoltaic (PV) facility in the Central Taiwan Science Park (CTSP) in Houli, Taichung, Taiwan

1 Oct 2009

Siemens Wins Order for Operation and Maintenance of PV Systems

Siemens Industry has won an order from the Madrid-based company Eolia Renovables for the technical operation and maintenance of four photovoltaic systems with a total power output of over 45 MW. Spanning a period of more than 20 years, the service and maintenance contract has a volume of approximately EUR40 million.

27 Sep 2009

Royal DSM's KhepriCoat Achieving Highest Energy Conversion

Royal DSM N.V., the global Life Sciences and Materials Sciences company headquartered in the Netherlands, announces today that its KhepriCoat™ anti-reflective coating system has contributed to achieving the highest energy conversion ever of a full-size solar module.

27 Sep 2009