Thin film technology refers to the use of non-silicon materials to convert sunlight into electricity.
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Solar CIS, which stands for copper, indium and selenium, are solar photovoltaic (PV) modules that leverage the latest developments in thin-film technology.
The company plans to use a thin film technology developed by a startup it bought in 2011 and begin shipping panels from the new factory in 2013.
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The CdTe technology spearheaded by First Solar is considered by the EPIA as the most economical thin film technology recorded efficiency levels of up to 11% in 2010.
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Despite the huge coverage -- film technology was in its early days but the remarkable incident was captured on three newsreel cameras -- many newspaper front pages instead led on the winning horse.
"Avatar" is a combination of live action and photo-realistic CGI and is being touted as a huge leap forward in film technology -- likened to the first movie in sound or with Technicolor.
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In the lab Cigs has a maximum solar conversion efficiency of 20.2%, better than the 16.5% of a thin-film technology that kicks the pants off the traditional crystalline silicon panels on price per watt of capacity.
Suntech Power is currently pursuing thin film technology, a low cost PV technology that involves depositing several thin layers of silicon or more complex materials on a substrate such as glass to make a PV cell.
Applied Materials (nasdaq: AMAT - news - people ), are working to improve another thin-film technology that is extremely cheap but so inefficient it can't yet match First Solar in cost per kwh.
Nanosolar is one of several Silicon Valley startups that have attracted billions of dollars in venture capital to develop a thin-film technology called copper indium gallium selenide, or CIGS. Such solar cells use little expensive silicon, the main ingredient of conventional photovoltaic cells.
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In a statement, the Solyndra said it would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy while exploring a sale of the business or licensing its thin-film photovoltaic technology.
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The famously perfectionist director first came up with the concept for "Avatar" 14 years ago but decided not to make the film until technology was advanced enough to cope with his vision.
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First Solar is engaged in the manufacturing and sale of solar modules with an advanced thin film semiconductor technology, and it competes with other solar industry players like SunPower , Suntech Power and Yingli Green Energy.
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Just last week, GE Energy (NYSE:GE) laid off workers and put expansion plans at their Colorado factory on hold for at least 18 months while they try to improve the Cadmium Telluride (CdTe) thin film solar technology they plan to produce there.
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The latest was filed on Friday by a film industry group that oversees copy protection technology of film DVDs.
The Oscar-winning director is famous for pushing the boundaries of technology in film and has long been an enthusiastic proponent of 3D technology.
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It is standard practice for film companies and technology entrepreneurs to raise funding from private investors.
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Any small bright dots that may appear on your display are an intrinsic characteristic of the thin film transistors manufacturing technology.
What began in 1987 as a music festival with 700 attendees has blossomed into a three-part expo covering music, film, and technology.
Transporting the painting into such a different medium, however, took patience: The result is a mix of old-fashioned craftsmanship and the latest in digital film-making technology.
Rather, it's a reflective display that uses a PNLC (Polymer Networked Liquid Crystal) module for improved brightness, and HR-TFT (high-reflective thin film transistor) technology to add contrast.
Today, Intermolecular announced an ongoing project with King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia for the enhancement of copper-indium-gallium-diselenide (CIGS) thin film solar manufacturing technology.
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This event has become one of the biggest parties of the year: What began in 1987 as a music festival with 700 attendees has blossomed into a three-part expo covering music, film, and technology.
But the Royal Society of Chemistry, which promotes the work of chemical sciences, says that it also meant that millions of people who saw the film saw nuclear technology being presented as a "barely-controllable force for evil".
Of course, it remains to be seen how well the rest of film's technology will hold up when we actually roll around to 2054, but great science fiction movies don't always have the best track record in pinpointing dates for their prognostications.
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The filmmakers used this technology to film a sequence of a wolf chasing a herd of caribou.
This is why Bookeen's engineers optimized the power management of the laminated light guide film used in the FrontLight technology.
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This led to a fascinating career path that began with the explosion of Silicon Valley technology drawing the film business toNorthern California.
Those are really the basic accurate descriptions of the storylines and application of technology in the film, both in plot and themes and visual motifs.
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