California Inventor Develops Solar Cell Assembly

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 25, 2007 ;     320 words ......Calif., has developed a solar cell assembly. According to...invention relates to a "solar cell assembly comprising a plurality of elongated solar cells, each respective solar cell comprising a core configured...semiconductor junction, and an elongated ...

World events spark interest in California's solar cell energy start-ups.

San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, California) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  August 15, 2004 ;     700+ words ......technology rush is as old as the sun: solar cell energy. After years of shying away from funding solar cell energy start-ups because of high costs...investing in San Jose's Miasole, a hot solar cell start-up, but hesitated after extensive...

California Inventors Develop Solar Cell Protection System

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 6, 2006 ;     236 words ......Arcadia, Calif., have developed a system and a method for protecting a solar cell. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The solar cell includes first solar cell portion. The first solar cell portion includes at least one junction...

Protein power: solar cell produces electricity from spinach and bacterial...

Science News;  June 5, 2004 ;     506 words ......sugar, researchers have fabricated a solar cell that uses photosynthetic proteins to...longer-lasting photovoltaic cells. To make the solar cell, a team of biologists and engineers led...devices. However, he says, to make a useful solar cell, the MIT team will have to dramatically...

The China Solar Cell Industry Report 2006 2007 Is Available Now.

M2 Presswire;  November 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ......2007-Research and Markets: The China Solar Cell Industry Report 2006 2007 Is Available...has announced the addition of China Solar Cell Industry Report, 2006-2007 to their offering...home appliances and ground application, solar cell is playing a special role. The production...

California Inventors Develop Solar Cell Structure

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 10, 2008 ;     269 words ......Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., have developed a by-pass diode protected solar cell. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solar cell structure includes a solar cell having a front side and a back side and an active semiconductor structure...

Ohio Inventor Develops Two-Junction Solar Cell

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 13, 2006 ;     218 words ......of Berea, Ohio, has developed a silicon tandem solar cell with extended temperature range. According to...Patent & Trademark Office: "A two-junction solar cell has a bottom solar cell junction of crystalline silicon, and a top solar...

Solar cell with 42.8% efficiency.(ENERGY/POWER PRODUCTION)

Advanced Ceramics Report;  September 1, 2007 ;     418 words ......high-performance crystalline silicon solar cell platform, a consortium led by the University...has achieved a record-breaking combined solar cell efficiency of 42.8% from sunlight at...results put the pieces in place for a solar cell module with a net efficiency 30% greater...

World record solar cell verified.

Energy Report;  January 1, 1992 ;     383 words ......have verified a record efficiency in a solar cell made from thin-film materials. The breakthrough...photovoltaic (PV) devices. The record-breaking solar cell was developed by Professor Ting Chu at...a cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film solar cell. Cadmium telluride is one of ...

Japanese Inventor Develops Solar Cell Production Method

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 19, 2008 ;     242 words ......Yamatotakada, Japan, has developed a solar cell manufacturing method. According...amp; Trademark Office: "A thin solar cell is provided, a decreased amount of an aluminum (Al) paste used for the solar cell without occurrence of a problem...

POLYCRYSTALLINE SILICON SOLAR CELL SILICON PUT INTO PRODUCTION

AsiaInfo Services;  September 5, 2001 ;     266 words ......Services 09-05-2001 Polycrystalline Silicon Solar Cell Silicon Put Into Production NINGBO, Sep...China's first polycrystalline silicon solar cell silicon product line was set up and has...which is able to produce two million and solar cell annually, will bring China's solar ...

Organic solar cell on plastic film.

Energy Report;  January 1, 1998 ;     281 words ......developed the world's first organic film solar cell. This is a prototype of the so-called Gratzel organic solar cell on a thin, flexible plastic base. The...Although the efficiency of the organic solar cell is lower than that of a normal silicon...

Concentrator solar cell achieves 40% energy efficiency.(GLOBAL ECONOMY)

Advanced Materials & Processes;  February 1, 2007 ;     164 words ......Energy has announced that a concentrator solar cell produced by Boeing-Spectrolab has recently...Attaining a 40% efficient concentrating solar cell means having another technology pathway...solar electricity. Almost all of today's solar cell modules do not concentrate sunlight...

Akrion Tappd for Advanced Solar Cell Application

Wireless News;  April 12, 2008 ;     231 words ......04-12-2008 Akrion Tappd for Advanced Solar Cell Application WIRELESS NEWS-April 12, 2008-Akrion Tappd for Advanced Solar Cell Application (C)2008 10Meters - http...applying it to the solar industry. Solar cell manufacturers seek to reduce the...

NEW WORLD RECORD ACHIEVED IN SOLAR CELL TECHNOLOGY

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 5, 2006 ;     512 words ......that with DOE funding, a concentrator solar cell produced by Boeing-Spectrolab has recently...a 40 percent efficient concentrating solar cell means having another technology pathway...solar electricity. Almost all of today's solar cell modules do not concentrate sunlight but...