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Canadian Solar To Offer 6mn Common Shares for Public

Canadian Solar Inc. (the "Company", "Canadian Solar" or "we") (Nasdaq: CSIQ) today announced that it intends to offer, subject to market and other conditions, approximately 6 million shares of common stock.

14 Oct 2009

Report on Quantam Dot Solar Cells

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Quantum Dot Solar Cells" report to their offering.

13 Oct 2009

Inabata America and Shrink Nanotechnologies to Jointly Market Solar Products

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. (“Shrink”) (OTCBB:INKN), an innovative nanotechnology company developing products and licensing opportunities in the solar energy production, medical diagnostics and sensors and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, today announced a strategic alliance with Inabata America Corporation to market and sell the Company’s OptiSol Solar Concentrator technologies and ShrinkChip Rapid Prototyping Solution (RPS).

13 Oct 2009

NanoMarkets' Latest Report on the Opportunities for Printed Silicon

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 of the pr...

13 Oct 2009

New Photovoltaic Inverter Family for Professional Solar Plants

Siemens is set to substantially extend its share in the PV (photovoltaics) inverter market. A current IMS Research study has shown that the PV plant market is expected to grow by at least 30 per cent annually until 2013, with the expectation that the growth rate will be disproportionately high in the commercial and power plant segment.

22 Sep 2009

Oerlikon Achieves New Stabilized Record Efficiency Level

Oerlikon Solar, the world's leading supplier of thin film silicon photovoltaic (PV) production equipment, today announced that it has achieved a new stabilized record efficiency level for amorphous silicon (a-Si) single junction PV cells.

22 Sep 2009

Patterning Photonic Crystal Structures Help Boost Effieciency

Currently there is a tremendous incentive to increase the efficiency of LEDs as they continue to find application in more and more areas such as consumer products, residential and consumer lighting and automotive industry.

4 Sep 2009

New Silk-Based Optical Waveguides Paves Way for Biomedical Applications

There is a growing need for biocompatible photonic components for biomedical applications – from in vivo glucose monitoring to detecting harmful viruses or the telltale markers of Alzheimer's. Optical waveguide...

1 Sep 2009

Coherent Launches New Integrated Laser System for Solar Cell Processing

The new MambaTM from Coherent Inc. is a 525 Watt (at 1064 nm), diode-pumped, solid-state laser that delivers an unmatched combination of high reliability, long lifetime and minimal maintenance downtime, and is primarily intended for high throughput materials processing applications such as edge deletion of solar panels and ITO patterning.

1 Sep 2009

Engineer Creates Lower-Cost Printable Solar Cells

Solar cells could soon be produced more cheaply using nanoparticle "inks" that allow them to be printed like newspaper or painted onto the sides of buildings or rooftops to absorb electricity-producing sunlight.

24 Aug 2009

Featured Equipment

Advanced F-Theta Lenses for Precision Imaging Systems

These F-theta lenses by Avantier are designed for consistent spot size and uniform field curvature correction, ideal for high-resolution imaging applications.

From Avantier Inc.

Off-Axis Parabolic (OAP) Mirrors: Precision Solutions for Advanced Optical Systems

Shanghai Optics provides high-precision off-axis parabolic (OAP) mirrors designed for advanced optical systems, offering superior reflective solutions for applications requiring precise light collimation and focus.

From Shanghai Optics