The new solar structure consists of n-type nanocones made of zinc oxide surrounded by a p-type semiconductor matrix made of polycrystalline cadmium telluride.

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Yeang's designs use walls of plants, scallop-shaped sunshades, solar panels, advanced ventilation and the structure and of the building itself to collect water and catch cooling air currents.

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Visitors will get a glimpse into the home of the future in a Sharp smart house composed of proprietary see-through solar modules set up as a symbolic structure of the booth.

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We will be able to look at things like new solar systems in formation and particularly the structure of so-called 'protoplanetary discs, ' where we believe a star is growing in the middle and planets are forming around the outside.

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If European countries decide, however, to cut solar power subsidies and make changes to feed-in-tariff (FiT) structure, this can negatively impact the sales and profits of First Solar and competitors like Suntech Power and SunPower.

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Signal Hill Group analyst Michael Carboy said Wuxi, China-based Suntech's "bread-and-butter piece of business" was not expected to move the company's stock price significantly, and pointed out that due to "a fair degree of concern that the Spaniards will announce adverse revisions to its incentive structure" in the sector, many solar stocks have fallen in recent days.

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The other, which faces a specialised type of solar cell made of a material called indium gallium arsenide, is sculpted into a structure called a photonic crystal that causes it to emit infra-red radiation selectively at the frequency best absorbed by the cell.

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