Nanoenergy News

SoloPower Adds Newly Certified SFX3 Thin Film CIGS Module to its Product Line

SoloPower, Inc., a California-based manufacturer of flexible, thin film solar cells and modules, continues to make steady progress with the successful expansion of its product line to include the newly certified SFX3 module.

Scientists Discover New Behavior of an Electricity-Generating Material at Nanoscale

Scientists have discovered that a class of materials known to convert heat to electricity and vice versa behaves quite unexpectedly at the nanoscale in response to changes in temperature. The discovery - described in ...

Comprehensive Report on Availability of Thin Film Photovoltaics and Batteries

Centrosolar’s Thin Film Solar Modules Receive MCS Certification

The way is paved for unlimited market access in Great Britain: In November, Centrosolar was certified for its thin film modules in accordance with the Microgeneration Certification Scheme (MCS).

Abound Solar to Establish Thin-Film Solar Module Manufacturing Plant in Indiana

Abound Solar, a manufacturer of next-generation, cadmium telluride, thin-film photovoltaic solar modules, today announced that it has leased a 781,750 square foot facility in Tipton, Ind., where it will be establishing a solar module manufacturing plant.

LDK Solar to Supply Solar Wafer and Polysilicon to Shanxi Lu'an Photovoltaic Technology

LDK Solar Co., Ltd. ("LDK Solar") a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers and PV products, today announced that the Company has entered into a multi-year wafer and polysilicon supply contract with Shanxi Lu'an Photovoltaic Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Lu'an Group, a leading Chinese energy enterprise.

Shrink Nanotechnologies Fabricates High Efficiency Solar Cells Using Electronic Glue Technology

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. ("Shrink"), an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the solar energy industry, medical diagnostics and sensors and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, announced today through its wholly owned subsidiary, BlackBox Semiconductor, Inc., that its recently licensed "electronic glue" chemistry will enable high efficiency solar cells to be fabricated from semiconductor nanocrystals with low cost roll-to-roll processing.

Sandia Researcher Develops Nanobattery at CINT Center

A benchtop version of the world's smallest battery — its anode a single nanowire one seven-thousandth the thickness of a human hair —has been created by a team led by Sandia National Laboratories research...

MIT Engineer Incorporates Nanostructures to Drive Solar Cell Efficiency

Zhengrong Shi, an engineer turned entrepreneur, has become one of China’s richest citizens by betting heavily on the future of solar power. In a talk on Tuesday at MIT, he outlined his vision for how he believes solar energy will, by the end of the century, produce more than two-thirds of the world’s electricity.

NJIT to Feature Practical Applications of Nanoscience at Nano Summit in Washington, DC

"Directed Self-Assembly of Vertical Nanotubes for Biosensors, Logic, and Nano-Biofuel Cells," will be the focus of NJIT's exhibit today at the National Nanotechnology Innovation Summit 10 http://www.nsti.org/events/NNI/, at the Gaylord Center in Washington, DC. The event celebrates the 10th anniversary of the national nanotechnology initiative.