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First PV Module Testing Lab in China to be Awarded Underwriters Laboratories Witness Testing Data Program Certificate

Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world's largest crystalline silicon photovoltaic (PV) module manufacturer, today announced that it has opened the first state-of-the-art PV module testing laboratory in China to be awarded the Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Witness Testing Data Program (WTDP) Certificate.

18 Jun 2009

SCHOTT Improves Glass by Applying Functional Layers – Now Even to Larger Surfaces

SCHOTT Advanced Optics offers one of the world's largest assortments of optical materials and filters. Now, a sputtering system that has been modified to suit the company's purposes allows for extremely precise coating of large parts of up to 590 mm x 730 mm.

18 Jun 2009

Jenoptik Wins New PV Customer in Asia

The order to JENOPTIK Automatisierungstechnik GmbH comprises a total of four systems. With these, Jenoptik is equipping important steps in the entire manufacturing process of thin-film solar cells to the Taiwanese manufacturer.

17 Jun 2009

Nemotek's Wafer-Level Optics Solutions are Fully Qualified and Available to Customers

Nemotek Technologie, manufactures customized Wafer-Level Cameras for portable applications, today announced its Wafer-Level Optics (WLO) solutions are fully qualified and now available to customers. Producing thousands of lenses simultaneously on a single wafer, Nemotek Technologie streamlines the manufacturing process delivering a more cost effective and miniaturized wafer level based on reflow compatible materials.

16 Jun 2009

SmartPod Luminaire Revolutionizes HID Lighting with up to 60-Percent Energy Savings

HID Laboratories, a provider of intelligent high-intensity lighting solutions, today unveiled the lighting industry's first high-efficiency, high-performance smart lighting and control platform.

16 Jun 2009

Flexible Solar Strips Light Up Campus Bus Shelter

There won't be anymore waiting in the dark at this campus bus shelter. New flexible solar cell technology developed by a group of engineering researchers at McMaster University has been installed to power lighting for night-time transit users.

12 Jun 2009

Researchers Develop New 'Electronic Glue'

Researchers at the University of Chicago and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed an "electronic glue" that could accelerate advances in semiconductor-based technologies.

11 Jun 2009

New Report Predicts New Opportunities Rapidly Emerging in Conductive Coatings Market

A new report from NanoMarkets, a leading industry analyst firm that tracks and analyzes emerging market opportunities in energy and electronics markets, predicts that new opportunities are rapidly emerging in the conductive coatings market as the result of new applications and novel materials.

10 Jun 2009

Sofi Solar Filter Satisfies the Most Rigorous Requirements

Global growth in solar energy production has boosted demand for photovoltaic applications and massively increased the related requirements. In response to the needs of this market of the future, Optics Balzers has developed interference filters satisfying the most rigorous customer-specific requirements, for example for sun simulators.

10 Jun 2009

SCHOTT Supplies Fire-Polished Glass Rods for Efficient Manufacturing of Small Lenses

The fire- polished rods made of specialized glass that the international technology group will be presenting for the first time ever in Europe at "Laser - World of Photonics" can be less than 1 mm in thickness and up to 1000 mm long.

10 Jun 2009