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Research Explores Turning Highways and Parking Lots into Solar Collectors

Anyone who has walked barefoot across a parking lot on a hot summer day knows that blacktop is exceptionally good at soaking up the sun's warmth. Now, a research team at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has found a way to use that heat-soaking property for an alternative energy source.

12 Aug 2008

Reducing Cost of Solar Energy with Materials Derived from Cotton and Castor Beans

BioSolar, Inc. surprised attendees at today's SPIE Symposium on Solar Applications and Energy in San Diego by revealing that materials derived from cotton and castor beans compose the company's proprietary BioBacksheet(TM), a protective covering, traditionally made from expensive petroleum-based film, used in the back of virtually all photovoltaic solar cells.

12 Aug 2008

Applied Materials to Support GET's Thin Film Solar Module Manufacturing

Applied Materials, Inc. announced today that it has signed a five-year service contract with Green Energy Technology Inc. (GET) of Taiwan to support GET's Applied SunFab(TM) Thin Film Line for solar module manufacturing.

11 Aug 2008

Market Perspective on Thin-Film Photovoltaics

The analysis is clear, concise and focused on the key aspects of the market and technology issues facing thin-film PV. The report is for technology savvy investors, corporate planners investigating potential opportunities for their companies in thin-film photovoltaics, technologists who would like to receive a market perspective on thin-film photovoltaics or financial analysts who need the bottom line to what the tf-pv market offers.

8 Aug 2008

Office Depot Introduces New Line of Energy Efficient CFLs

Office Depot®, a leading global provider of office products and services, today announced the launch of the office products industry's first exclusive brand of Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs (CFLs) in Office Depot retail stores nationwide and online at www.officedepot.com/buygreen.

6 Aug 2008

Solar Cells of the Future May Look Totally Black to the Human Eye

Solar cells of the future may look totally black to the human eye because they absorb light so efficiently. That's the promise of new research from an interdisciplinary team at the University of Virginia being funded by a new U.Va. Collaborative Sustainable Energy Seed Grant worth about $30,000.

5 Aug 2008

Spire Corp. to Provide Key Module Line Equipment to Trina Solar

Spire Corporation, a global solar company providing turnkey solar factories and capital equipment to manufacture photovoltaic (PV) modules worldwide, today announced that it has entered into a multi-year, multi-system contract to provide key module line equipment to Trina Solar Limited (Trina Solar) of the People's Republic of China.

30 Jul 2008

Leading Solar Cell Manufacturer Places Order for Veeco's MOCVD Deposition System

Veeco Instruments Inc. today announced that during the recently completed second quarter the Company received a multi-unit order for its TurboDisc K-475 As/P (arsenic phosphide) metal organic chemical vapor (MOCVD) deposition systems from Boeing Spectrolab Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of space solar cells and panels.

From Veeco 29 Jul 2008

LDK Solar to Purchase Furnaces Used in the Manufacturing of ingots under Agreement

LDK Solar Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of multicrystalline solar wafers, announced today that it has signed a contract to purchase production equipment from China-based JYT Corporation.

25 Jul 2008

Versatile High Power LED Driver for Up to 30 Watts with Integrated MOSFET

Power Analog Microelectronics (PAM), a developer of innovative Class-D digital audio amplifiers and high- power LED display driver semiconductors, today announced its first high- voltage 30 watt LED Driver with integrated MOSFET based on the Bipolar-CMOS- DMOS (BCD) Technology developed at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation (TSMC).

24 Jul 2008

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