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Risoe Scientists Develop Faster Test Method for Solar Cells

These years, many universities and companies are working to create efficient and cheap polymer solar cells, so-called third generation solar cells. This means a shift from few handmade laboratory cells to very large s...

23 Nov 2010

Applied Materials Wins Special Contribution Award from Yingli Green Energy

Applied Materials, Inc. today announced that Yingli Green Energy has granted Applied its "Special Contribution Award" for excellence in optimizing the efficiency and productivity of Yingli’s solar photovoltaic (PV) cell manufacturing operations in Baoding, Hebei province, China.

From Applied Materials Inc. 23 Nov 2010

Thin-Film Battery Market Expects to Reach $600 Million by 2015

The thin-film battery (TFB) market is an attractive and still-growing multimillion-dollar market characterized by very high production volumes of thin-film batteries that must be extremely reliable and low in cost.

22 Nov 2010

United Solar to Supply 6 MW of Photovoltaics for Winch Energy Solar Projects in Italy

United Solar, a leading global manufacturer of light-weight, flexible thin-film solar modules and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Energy Conversion Devices announced today it will supply six megawatts of UNI-SOLAR brand photovoltaics for a 9.7 megawatt portfolio of solar projects developed by Winch Energy, in the region of Puglia, Italy.

20 Nov 2010

Cavitation Technologies, Desmet Ballestra Enter Deal for Nano Reactor Technology

Cavitation Technologies, Inc. (CTi) (OTC Bulletin Board: CVAT; Berlin, Stuttgart & Frankfurt: WTC). CTi announced today that n.v. Desmet Ballestra Group s.a. (Desmet) and CTi have entered into a new global tech...

19 Nov 2010

New International Scientific Journal--Advanced Energy Materials

"Our mission is to support the global quest for energy solutions with this dedicated new journal," says Deputy Editor of Advanced Materials, Dr. Martin Ottmar. "The Advanced journals family is the ideal en...

19 Nov 2010

3-D Arrays of Semiconductor Nanopillars Enhance Solar Cells in Optical Efficiency

Sunlight represents the cleanest, greenest and far and away most abundant of all energy sources, and yet its potential remains woefully under-utilized. High costs have been a major deterrant to the large-scale applications of silicon-based solar cells.

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 18 Nov 2010

The Future for Nanopillars Now Looks Brighter Than Ever

From Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 16 Nov 2010

mPhase Achieves Triggering and Activation of First Multi-Cell Smart NanoBattery

mPhase Technologies, Inc. said today that it has successfully triggered and activated its first functional multi-cell Smart NanoBattery.

From MyPebble 15 Nov 2010

Research Team Develops Bio-Eco-Friendly Nanogenerator to Produce Electricity

The team of Prof. Keon Jae Lee (KAIST, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering) and Prof. Zhong Lin Wang (Georgia Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering) has developed new forms of highly efficient, flexible nanogenerator technology using the freely bendable piezoelectric ceramic thin film nano-materials that can convert tiny movements of the human body (such as heart beats and blood flow) into electrical energy.

15 Nov 2010