In related news, the company was also showcasing a couple of other innovations: a new solar cell microchip and its first solar cell.
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The first is a technical matter about the metals industry: not something I expect most to know about but really rather important in the context of discussing solar cell and solar panel subsidies.
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Last year in April 2012, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology created the first plastic solar cell (Forbes: New Technique Creates First Plastic Solar Cell) which they hope will help change requirements for manufacturing of organic printed electronics.
Furthermore, the company is involved in such a range of energy technologies (including dirty coal plants, nuclear generators, natural-gas turbines and wind) that it does not need carbon regulations in the way, say, a narrowly focused fuel-cell or solar-cell maker might.
Through a very unique concentrator design and the latest advances in semiconductor technology, we have developed a solar panel that requires two to three times less solar cell material than current solar panels.
The San Jose company announced Tuesday it will suspend production at six of the 12 solar cell production lines and cut solar panel production by 20% in the Philippines.
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The system the researchers tested used a type of solar cell known as dye-sensitized solar cells, a lightweight and inexpensive type where the active layer is composed of titanium dioxide, rather than the silicon used in conventional solar cells.
On Monday, solar cell makers Q-Cells SE and Solar World gained 8.5% and 8.8%, while wind turbine maker Nordex advanced 13.3%.
That is not great compared with the 20% and more achieved by a silicon-based solar cell, the 40% managed by a solar-thermal turbine, or even the 18-20% of one of the new generation of cheap and cheerful thin-film solar cells.
But last year solar cell manufacturers bought more silicon wafers than chipmakers--and solar's demand for wafers is growing three times as fast as demand from the rest of the electronics industry.
Put a solar cell at the focus of that mirror and you have an inexpensive solar-energy collector.
Researchers in the solar cell industry have known for a while that one potential avenue for improving solar cells is the use of carbon nanotubes.
The integrated touch sensor array and solar cell stack-ups may include electrodes that are used both for collecting solar energy and for sensing on a touch sensor array.
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Such big projects make sense for large solar-cell producers like SunPower and Arizona-based First Solar, since they provide reliable demand with which to keep their manufacturing plants running at peak efficiency.
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The Z-Park-based companies on display at CES hawk wares like candlelight-powered solar cell phones.
At which point several manufacturers started making polysilicon specifically and directly for the solar cell market.
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Was it reasonable to foresee the problems that the U.S. solar cell industry faces?
Polymer solar cells have attracted great attention due to their advantages over competing solar cell technologies.
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It is possible to make a solar cell this way, but it is time-consuming and expensive.
The solar cell manufacturing industry for years made do with hand-me-down tools from the computer chip industry.
To turn that heat into electricity, it is directed towards the solar cell by the photonic crystal.
But the dynamics of rivalry in the solar cell business are as clear as a bright sunny day.
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Within minutes, the CNC substrate dissolves and the solar cell can be separated easily into its major components.
But it's really only going to deliver maybe four or five percent more power from the solar cell.
Auto sales were flat due to continued weak demand, while sales at its solar cell and mobile phone fell.
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Sharp is also coming out with a sunflower-style solar cell that swivels on two axes to track the sun.
Solar Junction recently proved out a solar cell with a 44% conversion efficiency.
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Piper Jaffray analyst Jesse Pichel said high prices for polysilicon--a key material used in solar cell manufacturing--eroded LDK's margins.
And, the creation of that plastic solar cell could change the requirements for the manufacturing of organic printed electronics.
Then the solar cell industry expanded: note that this expansion was well before the vast US or Chinese subsidies.
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