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MAG Forms New Business Unit to Develop Automated Manufacturing Systems for Solar Panels

MAG Industrial Automation Systems is powering up on green energy, announcing the formation of a new Renewable Energy Business unit to design/build automated manufacturing systems for solar panels and wind turbine components.

5 May 2010

BT Imaging Announces Industry's First Electrical Wafer Quality Sorter for Solar Cell Manufacturing

BT Imaging Pty Ltd (BTi), the world's leading supplier of luminescence-based inspection and quality control systems for the photovoltaic manufacturing industry, today announced a breakthrough product for qualifying the electrical quality of as-cut wafers in production.

5 May 2010

Southwestern Power Generating Facility to Install Carmanah’s EverGEN Solar LED Lighting

A power generating facility in the United States is illuminating its perimeter fencing with $1 million (USD) of solar-powered LED streetlights provided by Carmanah Technologies.

5 May 2010

Coherent Completes Acquisition of Beam Dynamics; In Addition Partners with SiOnyx for Solar Cell Production

Coherent, Inc. (Nasdaq: COHR), today announced the completion of its all cash acquisition of Beam Dynamics for $6.25 million excluding transaction fees.

4 May 2010

Research on Purple Bacteria Helps in Development of Solar Panels

Neil Johnson, a physicist and head of the inter-disciplinary research group in complexity in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami, thinks its cellular arrangement could be adapted for use in solar panels and other energy conversion devices to offer a more efficient way to garner energy from the sun.

4 May 2010

Shrink to Market Quantum Dot Solar Concentrator Technologies Under PowerSkin Brand

Shrink Nanotechnologies, Inc. (“Shrink”), 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, announced today that it has received notification that it has purchased the PowerSkin™ trademarks from the bankruptcy estate associated with the Millennium Cell.

4 May 2010

New SunPower E19 Series Solar Panels Set Record of 19% or Greater Efficiency

SunPower Corp., a manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels and solar systems, today announced its new SunPower E19 Series solar panels, a product line that offers modules in a 96-cell or 72-cell configuration, with a record efficiency of 19 percent or greater.

3 May 2010

IDTechEx’s New Report Includes Forecasts on OLEDs and OPV

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Barrier Films for Flexible Electronics: Needs Players & Opportunities 2010-2020" report to their offering.

3 May 2010

Solar ReFeel Announces New Site to Test Solyndra’s Photovoltaic Systems

Renewable energy company Solar ReFeel announced today, that as part of a research activity together with CeRSAA and solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, a test site using Solyndra’s photovoltaic solutions has been constructed at CeRSAA’s Albenga, Italy facility. The project seeks to optimize the production of both food and electricity and to validate the crop growth benefits of Solyndra’s technology with independent testing by a leading agricultural research institution.

3 May 2010

SunEdison Plans for 12 Solar Energy Plants in Italy

SunEdison, a division of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc., today announced plans to complete 12 one-megawatt (MW) solar energy plants in the province of Lecce, Apulia in Italy, and announced a 47-million-euro financing deal with Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentale in Germany.

3 May 2010

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Advanced F-Theta Lenses for Precision Imaging Systems

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

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