Sentences with phrase «cigs thin»

Second, CIGS thin - film can, depending on the application, be flexible.

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

With this technique, the Empa team has again been able to significantly increase the energy conversion efficiency from sunlight into electricity using CIGS thin film solar cells on flexible plastic foils — to a new record level of 20.4 %, representing a marked improvement over the previous record of 18.7 % established by the same team in May 2011.

Not exact matches

The company began commercial - scale production of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin - film solar PV modules in late 2012, at a time when most thin film companies were being wiped out by low - cost crystalline silicon.

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.

«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 thin - film copper - indium - gallium - selenide (CIGS) photovoltaic layer also helps to lower the price so that they're cheaper conventional solar cells made from silicon.

Empa scientists have developed a new technique for manufacturing high - efficiency, flexible, thin film solar cells from CIGS (copper indium gallium di - selenide) semiconductors.

Solyndra is now churning out copper - indium - gallium - selenide (CIGS) thin - film solar cells, wrapped into a cylindrical shape and encased in glass.

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.

In March, the company opened a new factory in Tucson, where it plans to produce enough thin - film CIGS solar cells to generate 40 megawatts of electricity next year — enough to power roughly 15,000 average American homes; it hopes to boost the juice to 100 megawatts by 2010 in response to what it predicts will be a growing market.

Yet, cadmium telluride commands only about 30 percent of the thin - film market, according to DoE statistics, compared with amorphous silicon cells (such as those produced by Sharp and ECD Ovonics), which account for more than 60 percent; CIGS cells make up just about 1 percent of this market.

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..

CIGS (copper - indium - gallium - selenide) solar cells are compound thin - film solar cells and the most established alternative to silicon solar cells.

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.

Tucson, AZ — September 2, 2016 — Global Solar Energy, Inc., a leading manufacturer of high - efficiency Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide (CIGS) thin film solar products, announces the official launch of www.globalsolar.com, their new, completely redesigned website.

Solar industry manufacturing consortium PVMC and NREL aim to help reduce the installed cost of thin - film CIGS solar PV by 75 %, an effort that falls right in line with targets set out in PVMC's thin - film PV industry roadmap and President Obama's SunShot Initiative

In developing its thin - film solar panels, MiaSolé uses copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS), an alternative semiconductor to silicon, which is used in most conventional panels.

In related news, the Germany Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research (ZSW) has broken a new efficiency record in the laboratory for thin - film CIGS panels, via Renewable Energy World.

Here are the details on the power plant and the solar factory: 200 MW Factory to Build Panels for Power Plant The plan is over the next three years to build the 200 MW thin - film solar PV factory (producing amorphous silicon, CIGS and related hybrid PV modules), with 22 MW being completed by the end of 2009.