Natcore and NREL unveil two black silicon goals
Natcore Technology Inc. and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have entered into a one year $150,000 cooperative research and development agreement. They have identified two goals.
40c/W silicon solar cells?
A new U.S. entrant to the silicon-cell machinery market, Twin Creeks Technologies, today released a wafer production system that it claims can produce solar cells for less than US$0.40 per Watt (/W).
MiaSole secures $55 million in funding
CIGS thin film photovoltaic module developer, MiaSole has secured US$ 55 million in funding. The company says it will “aggressively” build the commercial part of its business.
Natcore unveils new solar research center in US' Rochester
Natcore Technology Inc. has opened its new solar research and development center today in Kodaks Eastman business park in Rochester, the U.S. Flexible solar cells will be a key focus.
Dyesol celebrates award and sures up share price
Australian dye-sensitized photovoltaics developer Dyesol, which is developing Dye Solar Cell (DSC) applications, has taken steps to sure up its share price. At the same time, the “father” of DSC has been awarded the 2012 Albert Einstein World Award of Science.
Solar Frontier claims 17.8% aperture efficiency
In what it claims is a world record, Japanese CIGS manufacturer Solar Frontier today announced that it has achieved an aperture are efficiency of 17.8 percent, on a 30cm by 30cm submodule. The record was achieved at the companys Atsugi Research Center.
BIPV glass markets to rise rapidly
A new report looking at the building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) glass market predicts that its market value will rise by at least 400 percent over the next five years. It also highlights the firms to watch and explains why Suntech could transform the market.
Virtual power station project maps distributed generation
Australian scientists are working on a research project to network solar arrays across many roofs and households, into a “virtual power station”. The project hopes to improve the “predictability, quality and response” of power being put back into the local power grid.
"Broadband nanoplasmonic" technology increases c-Si thin film efficiency
A collaborative research project, based in the Australian state of Victoria, claims to have developed the worlds most efficient broadband nanoplasmonic solar cells. The result, published in the journal Nano Letters, report the cells having an efficiency of 8.1 per cent.
Taking PV to new places
A new research project at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), is aiming to get photovoltaics applied in brave new ways and many more places. The project, at the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Low-Carbon Living at UNSW, will focus on a range of techniques, applications and potential impediments relating to photovoltaic technology.
