Sentences with phrase «cigs materials»

In solution form, their solar absorber layer — the part made from the copper indium diselenide or CIGS materials and critical to the performance of the cell — can be easily painted or coated onto a surface.

«We believe that thin film was a great solution for the rooftop, and our ability to hermetically seal it in glass was a good way to ensure that you could use a CIGS material and not run into degradation with exposure to air or water,» says Solyndra spokesman David Miller.

The Uranium is burned and then stored in a nuclear waste facility; the CIGS material produces power for at least the warranty period of the solar cell product after which it can then be recycled and reused an indefinite number of times.

Not exact matches

These semiconductors can be used as an optical absorber material in solar cells, but so far have only achieved a maximum efficiency of 12.6 per cent, while solar cells made of copper - indium - gallium - selenide (CIGS) already attain efficiencies of over 20 percent.

But tests of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) or related materials have failed so far to produce a winner.

«The first hurdle is cost,» says materials scientist B. J. Stanbery, CEO of HelioVolt in Austin, Tex., which is in the process of opening its first CIGS solar cell factory.

The bombshell of December 2017 was the news that Crytek was suing Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space Industries, the companies behind the sprawling and controversial crowdfunded MMO Star Citizen, alleging that CIG infringed its copyrights by using CryEngine to develop non-Star Citizen game assets in the form of Squadron 42 while misusing Crytek's logo in marketing materials and Crytek's CryEngine in the form of Star Engine.

Furthermore, Crytek accuses CIG of deleting Crytek logos in marketing materials and splash screens around the same time studio head Chris Roberts began calling the game's engine Star Engine rather than CryEngine, which itself was allegedly a breach of the original licensing agreement.

Or said differently, 1 kg of CIGS is equivalent to 5 kg of enriched Uranium in terms of the energy the materials deliver in solar and nuclear respectively.

Early last year, «Rumor: First Solar Looks to Experiment With CIGS» by Michael Kanellos for Greentech Media speculated CdTe (cadmium telluride) expert First Solar was investigating the CIGS (copper indium gallium diselenide) material set for potential PV commercialization.

The German solar equipment manufacturer receives first prepayment on EUR 110 million CIGS order placed by two subsidiaries of Chinese state - owned enterprise China National Building Materials.

The Previous Record was 17.6 % Scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have made flexible solar cells made of copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) with a light - conversion efficiency of 18.7