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Thin-Film Technology Poised to Take Significant Market Share

After years of heady growth in the PV market led largely by crystalline silicon, thin-film technology has reached a critical mass and is poised to start taking significant market share from incumbent technology. Thin-fil...

2 Jul 2008

Researchers from ORNL Received Recognition in Nanotechnology

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have won six R+D 100 Awards for innovative technologies in areas ranging from national security to the advanced materials indu...

From Oak Ridge National Laboratory 2 Jul 2008

ApNano Materials Announces Major Breakthrough in WS2 Nanotube Production for Bulletproof Vests

ApNano Materials, Inc., a provider of nanotechnology-based products, today announced a major breakthrough in the production of the company's unique, inorganic tungsten disulfide (WS2) nanotubes in industrial quantities.

1 Jul 2008

Ascent Solar to Develop Thin-Film Multijunction PV for US Air Force

Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc., a developer of state-of-the-art, thin-film photovoltaic materials, announced today that the US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has selected Ascent Solar for a Broad Agency Announcement award to develop high-performance thin-film multijunction photovoltaics (PV) based on Ascent Solar's flexible monolithically integrated CIGS technology.

1 Jul 2008

Record Light Conversion Efficiency in Solvent-Free Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

In a paper published online June 29 in the journal Nature Materials, EPFL professor Michael Graetzel, Shaik Zakeeruddin and colleagues from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have achieved a record light conversion efficiency of 8.2% in solvent-free dye-sensitized solar cells. This breakthrough in efficiency without the use of volatile organic solvents will make it possible to pursue large scale, outdoor practical application of lightweight, inexpensive, flexible dye-sensitized solar films that are stable over long periods of light and heat exposure.

30 Jun 2008

SVTC Technologies Selects Next Generation MEMS Processing Tools from SUSS MicroTec

SUSS MicroTec, Inc., a leading supplier of process and test solutions for the semiconductor industry, announces a suite of processing tools that enable new generations of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) has been s...

28 Jun 2008

Researchers Developed Method to Self-Assemble Metals into Complex Nanostructures

For 5,000 years or so, the only way to shape metal has been to "heat and beat." Even in modern nanotechnology, working with metals involves carving with electron beams or etching with acid. Now, Cornell rese...

27 Jun 2008

Finding May Be Key to Solving Fuel Cell Reliability Issues

Seeking to understand a new fuel cell material, a research team working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in collaboration with the University of Liverpool, has uncovered a novel structure tha...

26 Jun 2008

IBM and ETH Zurich Announces Partnership in Nanotechnology

IBM and ETH Zurich, a premiere European science and engineering university, today announced the formation of a partnership in the field of nanotechnology. As part of this collaboration, a new nanotechnology laborator...

25 Jun 2008

White Paper Outlines Challenges in Manufacturing High-Purity Ceramic Powders on a Nanoscale

SACHEM has published a white paper titled "Avanta AC"! Advanced Ceramics Solutions as Enablers for Advanced Ceramic Nanopowders" online. This white paper outlines the challenges in manufacturing high-purity ceramic powders on a nanometer scale , as well as the advantages of SACHEM's new line of products.

25 Jun 2008