Tool Order: Ascent Solar selects 8 roll-to-roll wet-chemical coating machines from STANGL - 18 August 2008
Suntech Power guides 2010 capacity target - 20 August 2008
Solarfun sets 2009 cell/module capacity ramp - 27 August 2008
First Solar to expand Ohio production site - 19 August 2008
While First Solar keeps on trucking, others in CdTe thin-film PV pack keep on muddling - 20 August 2008
Magma’s Oberai explains partnership with Pegasus to bring yield management software to solar PV fabs - 29 August 2008
DC Chemical wins 488 bln-won polysilicon order - 29 August 2008
Optony: where thin film and concentrating solar meet - 29 August 2008
LCD panel makers gear up thin-film solar deployment - 29 August 2008
Smit Ovens passes 2 Gigawatt peak milestone - 29 August 2008
Collaboration between researchers at GE Global Research and GE
Energy-Solar Technologies has shown the capabilities of a
nano-wire-based solar cell, which has the potential to achieve up to 18
percent efficiency and is claimed to dramatically lower production
costs over conventional solar cell fabrication. GE recently reported
these developments in the Applied Physics Letters journal.
“GE’s demonstration of the silicon nanowire-based cell represents a
significant breakthrough in our efforts to enable higher efficiency
cells that can be produced at much lower production costs,” said Dr.
Loucas Tsakalakos, Project Leader of GE’s Nano PV team. “Today, higher
efficiency often comes with a higher price tag. Through the unique
processing and materials property benefits enabled by nanotechnology,
we’re aiming to break that paradigm and pave the way to making solar
power more affordable for consumers while maintaining and even
improving cell performance.”
GE is currently undertaking a
$46.7 million three-year project into making solar energy more cost
effective, including technologies for the solar cell such as high
efficiency silicon-based cells, molded silicon wafers, and flexible
thin films.
