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RED BANK, N.J., March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Natcore Technology Inc. (TSX-V: NXT); (Pink Sheets: NTCXF) has signed a letter of understanding to sell its first intelligent antireflective (AR) coating processing station to Hunan TLNZ Solar Technology Co. Ltd. (TLNZ) of Xiangtan, China. Natcore believes its device will revolutionize the way that solar cells are made. It will replace the expensive and environmentally harmful chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method currently used by industry...
RED BANK, N.J., March 15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Natcore Technology Inc. (TSX-V: NXT); (Pink Sheets: NTCXF) today begins work on the first production model of its intelligent LPD processing station for growing an antireflective (AR) coating on silicon wafers in the process of becoming solar cells. By using its exclusive technology, licensed from Rice University, Natcore believes its device will revolutionize the way solar cells are manufactured. At present, solar cell manufacture involves an...
Bochum physicists are constructing 0-dimensional systemsThrough his participation, the research team from Bochum, Duisburg-Essen, and Hamburg now has succeeded in an energy-state occupancy readout of those artificial atoms "“ using common interfaces to classic computers. This is a big step towards the application of such systems. They report about their findings in Nature Communications.One million instead of individual atomsIn principle, the spin of electrons in individual atoms can be...
Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have found a way to grow nanolasers directly onto a silicon surface, an achievement that could lead to a new class of faster, more efficient microprocessors, as well as to powerful biochemical sensors that use optoelectronic chips.They describe their work in a paper published Feb. 6 in an advanced online issue of the journal Nature Photonics."Our results impact a broad spectrum of scientific fields, including materials science,...
Research could lead to cheap, clean ways to produce hydrogen for use in fuel cellsA little disorder goes a long way, especially when it comes to harnessing the sun's energy. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) jumbled the atomic structure of the surface layer of titanium dioxide nanocrystals, creating a catalyst that is both long lasting and more efficient than most materials in using the sun's energy to extract hydrogen from...
Paul Preuss, Berkeley LabSolar cells are made from semiconductors whose ability to respond to light is determined by their band gaps (energy gaps). Different colors have different energies, and no single semiconductor has a band gap that can respond to sunlight's full range, from low-energy infrared through visible light to high-energy ultraviolet.Although full-spectrum solar cells have been made, none yet have been suitable for manufacture at a consumer-friendly price. Now Wladek...
Paves the way toward widespread energy harvesting, generating self-sufficient power from the surrounding environment Tokyo, Dec 9, 2010 - (JCN Newswire) - Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. today announced that it has developed a new hybrid energy harvesting device that generates electricity from either heat or light. With this single device, it is possible to derive energy from two separate sources, which previously could only be handled by...
SYDNEY, Australia and WUXI, China, Nov. 26, 2010 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Suntech Power Holdings Co., Ltd. (NYSE: STP), the world's largest producer of solar panels, supplied 384kW of Pluto-powered solar panels for a rooftop solar array on The Wharf, home of the Sydney Theatre Company (STC). The solar installation's completion was commemorated today at a switch-on event hosted by STC Artistic Directors Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20101126/CN07908...
New ultra-clean nanowires produced at the Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen will have a central role in the development of new high-efficiency solar cells and electronics on a nanometer scale. PhD student Peter Krogstrup, Niels Bohr Institute, in collaboration with a number of well-known researchers and the company SunFlake A/S, is behind the breakthrough. The new findings have recently been published in the prestigious journal Nano Letters.Nanowires are one-dimensional structures...
ALISO VIEJO, Calif., Nov. 9, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- XsunX, Inc. (XSNX), the developer of hybrid, thin-film photovoltaic (TFPV) solar cell technologies and manufacturing processes, today announced it has further enhanced the conversion efficiency levels of its cell devices to 15.1 percent based upon the Company's CIGSolar(TM) technology. With other market-ready thin-film technologies functioning within the range of 8-11 percent for solar modules, the CIGSolar(TM) technology illustrates...
