Tag Archives: silicon
Crystalline Silicon PV Efficiency Leaders
So much attention gets focused on thin film aroundthese here parts that it’s easy to forget that crystalline silicon(c-Si) PV still makes up more than three-fourths of the module market(for more details on this, you can find our free research note on 2009cell and module production here). To some extent, this is understandable: the obvious [...]
Korean Delegation Visits Silicon Valley
Applied Materials, in partnership with the Korean UniversityCouncil for Social Service, hosted 20 engineering students from variousuniversities in Korea as part of a Global Leadership Program. Thestudents traveled to the U.S. to learn about the high-tech industry, new technologies and corporate social responsibility. While at Applied, the students learned about the business, met with executives, [...]
Ron Kenedi of Sharp Solar Discusses Amorphous Silicon
Reporting from the Intersolar Solar show in SanFrancisco, California — I spoke with Ron Kenedi, Vice President of Sharp’s Solar Energy Solutions Group. Kenedi has been in the solarbusiness for a while. Prior to Sharp, he worked at Kyocera, and heremembers the bad old days when solar was "a pre-niche market — a gleam in [...]
Innovalight to Double Silicon Ink Efficiency
Innovalight boasts that it will be able to double the solar potency of itsnanocrystalline silicon ink as soon as next year. By 2012, additional improvements should push the efficiency of amainstream crystalline solar cell using the ink to above 20 percent. Conrad Burke, chief executive of the Sunnyvale, CA company, said thecompany’s silicon ink today [...]
California’s Silicon Valley: A Center for Greentech Growth!
In the not so distant past it was the silicon valley that was one ofthe best examples of American ingenuity and progress in technology, andour drive to usher change to the rest of the world. But now that manyother countries outcompete silicon valley in making simple electronicsand computers there has been a need to get [...]
The Next Big Thing: The Greening of Silicon Valley
From the street, Adobe Systems’ San Jose headquarters looks like anyother collection of skyscrapers that dot the downtown of theself-proclaimed capital of Silicon Valley. But ascend to a skyway that connects two of the software company’stowers and you’ll find a wind farm. Twenty vertical turbines thatresemble a modern art installation slowly rotate in the breeze [...]
Innovalight Grabs Record with Silicon Ink Solar Cells
Innovalight, a privately-held firm selling a platform of siliconink-based high efficiency solar cell materials and technology, announced that the company has achieved a new record of 19 percent conversionefficiency with silicon ink processed solar cells. The conversionefficiency of a solar cell is the proportion of sunlight energy that acell converts to electrical energy. The Fraunhofer [...]
Quay Valley, California: The Silicon Valley of Sustainability?
California has long been the U.S. leader in clean technologydevelopment and currently leads the nation in green-tech jobs. From landmark legislation like the Global Warming Solutions Act (AB 32) to headquartering clean techcompanies like Tesla and SolarCity, California’s green jobs sector isgrowing many times faster than the rest of the state’s economy. California green businesses [...]
Who’s Who in Solar Silicon
Some of the twenty smaller polysilicon manufacturers operating todayprobably won’t be around by the end of 2011. That predication, and manymore, can be found in a new report from Bernreuter Research. The Who’s Who of Solar Silicon Production containsforecasts for the silicon PV industry, basic information on 150companies around the world and in-depth profiles of [...]