Sentences with phrase «cigs technology»

«Partnering with CIGS technology veterans like Global Solar was a natural fit to help us reach our goal to complete the largest CIGS PV rooftop system,» he said.

Earlier this week, Global Solar Energy officials announced the company's CIGS technology is powering an 820 - kilowatt (kW) solar energy system for a plastics manufacturing business in northern Italy.

IBM's CIGS technology — for copper, indium, gallium and selenide — is a thin - film approach that will initially be able to convert at least 15 percent of the solar energy it receives into electricity, says Supratik Guha, a senior manager at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y..

A host of companies, including HelioVolt, Nanosolar and others, are using CIGS technology in an attempt to cut the cost of producing photovoltaic cells.

A better bet than Solyndra with CIGS technology may not be cylinders but rather more flexible arrangements, like a solar carpet being developed by Solopower with another DoE loan guarantee or PV shingles, such as those developed by Dow.

Not exact matches

There are a number of competing solar cell technologies (c - Si, perovskite, CIGS, etc), but currently with 80 tonnes of silver necessary to generate one GW of solar power, should solar really become ubiquitous, a steady and increasing demand driver for silver is in place.

Although the work is specifically aimed at the improvement in efficiency of thin film Cadmium Telluride solar cell devices, the coatings can be applied to other thin film technologies such as CIGS (copper indium gallium selenide) and amorphous silicon.

The slightly improved record shows that CIGS thin film technologies are a «hot» topic — and that Empa is right at the cutting edge.

But CIGS has the most potential efficiency (converting as much as 25 percent of incoming sunlight to electricity) of any of the thin - film technologies as well as of traditional photovoltaic cells, Heliovolt's Stanberry says.

Professor Masanobu Izaki and colleagues at Toyohashi University of Technology, in collaboration with researchers at the Research Center for Photovoltaic Technologies, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, have analyzed the structure of a zinc - based buffer layer in a CIGS solar cell at SPring8 (the world's largest third - generation synchrotron radiation facility, located in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan).

Use of thin film technology, such as CIGS, has great promise in reducing the overall cost of solar cells and further enabling their widespread adoption.

CIG is researching new technologies to increase their instance limits, beyond optimizing existing code.

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