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Patent Giving BioSolar Full Protection on BioBacksheet Breakthrough Technology

BioSolar, Inc. announced today that it has filed a patent application to protect the novel inventions and processes behind its proprietary bio-based backsheet, a protective covering for the back of photovoltaic solar cells traditionally made from expensive petroleum-based film.

24 Oct 2008

Significant Supplier in the Fast Emerging Flexible Display and OLED Markets

NexTech Solutions, Inc. and FAS Holdings Group, LLC, jointly doing business as "NexTechFAS," are pleased to announce that it will be exhibiting at the 4th Global Plastic Electronics Conference and Showcase in Berlin Germany from October 27- 29, 2008. During the conference, they will be featuring their Advantage Series extrusion deposition (ED) system and the NexTStar automated optical inspection (AOI) tool.

23 Oct 2008

First Silicon Solar Cell to Achieve Milestone of 25 Percent Effiency

UNSW's ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence has again asserted its leadership in solar cell technology by reporting the first silicon solar cell to achieve the milestone of 25 per cent effiency.

23 Oct 2008

Extremely Powerful Lasers Pave Way for Cleaner Energy

Research that has provided a deeper understanding into the centre of planets could also provide the way forward in the world's quest for cleaner energy.

23 Oct 2008

AXT Becomes Charter Member of the concentrator photovoltaics Consortium

AXT, Inc., a leading manufacturer of compound semiconductor substrates, today announced that it has become a charter member of the CPV Consortium, a global industry organization that supports the development and long-term success of the concentrator photovoltaics (CPV) industry, with the goal of providing a low-cost, reliable source of renewable energy. Concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) cells, referred to as "multi-junction" or "III-V" cells, offer significantly higher efficiencies than traditional photovoltaic systems. In addition to AXT, CPV Consortium charter members include 3M, Concentrix, Emcore, ISFOC, Isofoton, Solfocus and Veeco.

From Veeco 21 Oct 2008

Most Advanced and Powerful Electron Microscope Installed at McMaster University

The most advanced and powerful electron microscope on the planet-capable of unprecedented resolution-has been installed in the new Canadian Centre for Electron Microscopy at McMaster University.

20 Oct 2008

Spire Corp. and Shuttleworth to Provide Components to Complement XsunX TFPV Manufacturing System

XsunX, Inc., a solar technology company, announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Spire Corporation and Shuttleworth Inc., who will provide components to complement the company's TFPV manufacturing system.

20 Oct 2008

High Energy Neutral Atom Imager Captures Evidence of Far-Distant Particle Collisions

A new NASA mission, IBEX, launches this weekend, geared to probe the very edge of the solar system from a high Earth orbit. One of its two instruments is a compact Los Alamos device called the High Energy Neutral Atom Imager.

18 Oct 2008

Single Mode Green Laser from Coherent Sets Power Record for Precision Micromachining Applications

The new AVIA(TM) 532-45 from Coherent, Inc. is the most powerful diode-pumped, solid state green laser currently available that delivers diffraction limited output. Specifically, this new laser provides 45W of average power (at 120 kHz) at 532 nm, in a single mode output beam (M2 < 1.3), making it over twice as powerful as the nearest competitive model.

17 Oct 2008

New Material Captures Entire Range of the Solar Spectrum

Researchers have created a new material that overcomes two of the major obstacles to solar power: it absorbs all the energy contained in sunlight, and generates electrons in a way that makes them easier to capture.

16 Oct 2008

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