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Cadmium: The Dark Side of Thin-Film?

Cadmium-telluride (called cad-tel for short) is a more cost-effective way of making thin-film PVs than the older crystalline silicon design. AVA Solar's vice president of marketing, Russell Kanjorski, said cad-tel is a compound that ...

New Solar Energy Facts – Fused Quartz Semiconductor Technology ...

The thin solar panel film comprised of photovoltaic cells often uses a cadmium telluride crystalline compound to create a semiconductor layer that more effectively converts sunlight to electricity. The important point here would be that ...

First Solar Cranks Out a Good Gigawatt of Thin Film Solar

First Solar has been the most successful thin-film manufacturer so far, manufacturing 1 gigawatt of cadmium-telluride films as of March. One pre-incubator winner, Bolingbrook, Ill.-based EPIR Technologies, plans to use its award to [. ...

Suntech takes over from First Solar as PV module leader

First Solar, the US-based producer of cadmium telluride solar thin-film PV modules, topped the production rankings in Q2 2010 (even higher than Suntech), however not all of its solar thin-film modules were shipped in the quarter and its ...

Stion company developing new solar cells | battery and laptop news

Business Development Manager Frank Yang said: “It is not silicone material, nor is cadmium telluride, not CIGS (copper indium gallium selenium compounds), we will open it at the appropriate time information.” ...

GE Becomes Prime Investor in PrimeStar

But while cadmium telluride is one of the first types of thin-film solar to hit the market, it does have some weaknesses. Analysts have long pointed out that cadmium can be toxic and could be banned by concerned European countries for ...

Infrared Camera – Making Photography A Magical Experience

Some of the semiconductors used in the camera have been lead selenide, indium arsenide, mercury cadmium telluride as well as indium antimonide. Uncooled Infrared Detectors – Usually uncooled infrared cameras make make make use of of of ...

Exclusive: PV in the USA—The current incarnation of tech ...

After winning an incubation award in the initial round in 2007, Abound (then called AVA Solar) worked with NREL to scale up from prototype to pilot, taking its cadmium-telluride manufacturing capability from 20 × 30cm minimodules to ...

Report: The Winners & Losers of the Solar Shakeout

Lux selected Abound Solar from the lot as a rising star in making cadmium-telluride solar panels. Abound, based in Loveland, Colo., and backed by DCM, last raised venture capital in 2008 ($104 million), opened its first factory in 2009 ...

High Speed Infrared Cameras Enable Demanding Thermal Imaging ...

Recent developments in cooled mercury cadmium telluride (MCT or HgCdTe) infrared detector record have done probable the growth of tall opening infrared cameras for have have have have make make use of of of of of of in the far-reaching ...

Round Two of the Solar Shakeout: Who Will Thrive, Survive, or Dive?

BOSTON----Despite a strong opening to 2010 for the solar market, manufacturers are now bracing themselves for further price declines and stiffer competition. As module makers prepare for a renewed trench war based on production scale, inverter players aim to stake their competitive territory based on performance improvements and novel architectures.

Immelt stakes growth on higher R&D as NBC, finance shrink

Colored water droplets bead up on a hydrophobic nano-engineered surface that will be used to improve the performance of other industrial products in the Nanocoatings Subscale Lab at General Electric Co.'s (GE) Global Research Center in Niskayuna, New York, U.S., on Tuesday, July 13, 2010. As Chairman Jeffrey Immelt prepares to sell NBC Universal and shrinks the company's GE Capital unit, he's ...

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Fastest-Growing's rising stars

If you're looking for the future of American business, our annual list of the 100 Fastest-Growing Companies isn't a bad place to start. Of course, as they say on Wall Street, past performance doesn't guarantee future results. But every year companies like Genentech and Starbucks appear on this list before moving on to bigger and better things.

EPIR Files Suit Against Sunovia

BOLINGBROOK, Ill.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Founded in 1998, EPIR Technologies, Inc., a fast-growing high-technology company in Illinois, filed suit in federal district court in Chicago against Florida-based Sunovia Energy Technologies, Inc. (“Sunovia”) in response to Sunovia’s multiple breaches of the parties’ Research, Development, and Supply Agreement (“RDS Agreement”). Earlier in July, having ...

Bad grammar a good calling card for some firms

Grammar rules in the tech world have always allowed misspelled words, Roman numerals and the capitalization priorities of a seventh-grader's MySpace profile. In Pittsburgh alone, the evidence is there in Wizzard Software's extra "Z," reCAPTCHA's runaway Caps Lock, Fooala's love of vowels.

IW 50 -- First Solar Puts Heat on Competitors

Manufacturer of thin-film solar modules takes command of solar-panel supply chain.

Erica Gies: Solar waste recycling: can the industry stay green?

Clean-tech firms seek to reuse a variety of rare, potentially toxic materials. New businesses emerge as manufacturers prepare for modules' end of life. In recent...

KACO NEW ENERGY partners with Schletter Inc. and Abound Solar, Inc. for "Solar Training, Workshop and Conference ...

KACO new energy - the world's second largest inverter manufacturer; with over 2GW of PV inverters in the field to date partners with Schletter Inc. and Abound Solar, Inc. for "Solar Training, Workshop and Conference" September 14-16, held at the Schletter Inc. solar mounting systems manufacturing and distribution facility in Tucson, Ariz.

Solar Waste Recycling: Can The Industry Stay Green?

© Foto-Bšhme Frauenstein / Detlev MŸller. Solar waste recycling industry starts up. Clean-tech firms seek to reuse a variety of rare, potentially toxic materials. New businesses emerge as manufacturers prepare for modules’ end of life.