November 20,2009 –

Shipments of photovoltaic inverters topped a record in 3Q09 after stalling earlier in the year, with particular strength in Germany, according to data from UK-based market research firm IMS Research.

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November 19,2009 –

Solar Metrology has released the System SMX-ILH remote static head tool, a line-mountable X-ray fluorescence tool for atmospheric CIGS composition and thickness measurement.

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November 19,2009 –

Dow Chemical and the California Institute of Technology are forging a new collaboration to develop semiconductor materials that are less expensive and more abundant than today’s thin-film solar-cell materials.

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November 13,2009 –

With prices plummeting and production soaring, thin-film solar photovoltaic (PV) cells are poised to snatch business from leading crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar PV in the next several years, taking nearly a third of the market by 2013, accord…….

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November 12,2009 –

Simple short-cut calculations are difficult for capacity check of facilities in the event of changes in production (e.g., capacity increase, new technologies, new chemicals), due to the mutual influence of several facility systems. Only a full …….

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November 12,2009 –

Researchers at Argonne National Labs say they have refined a technique to make solar cells by growing polymers inside tubes of semiconducting material, a method potentially much cheaper than conventional crystalline silicon or thin-film commerc…….

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November 11,2009 –

Researcher Tim Schmidt from the U. of Sydney explains the results from work on "upconversion" as a way to boost solar cell efficiency limit of c-Si and a-Si solar cells by one-third.

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