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For news on the broad LED industry, outside of general lighting, along with the materials and technology supply chain, visit LIGHTimes Online. For a higher level view of LEDs in general lighting, you can visit Solid State Lighting Design, which covers packaged "lighting quality" LEDs through subsystems, luminaires and application stories.


 
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Global Solar Rolls Out Flexible CIGS Module for Roofing Industry

September 6, 2010...Global Solar of Tucson, Arizona USA, unveiled its flexible CIGS building integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) module, the PowerFlex BIPV. The company specially designed the PowerFlex BIPV modules for commercial and industrial rooftops. Global Solar claims that the modules can deliver more power per rooftop than any other solar solution. Global Solar also claims that the PowerFLEX BIPV module installed on rooftops...

Miasolé Exceeds 14 Percent Efficiency With Commercial-Scale CIGS Solar Modules

September 6, 2010...MiaSolé of Santa Clara, California USA, a maker of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar panels announced an indepedently confirmed 14.3 percent efficiency for its 1 square meter modules. According to Miasole, the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory confirmed the results. Miasole says that 14.3 percent module efficiency is the highest independently confirmed efficiency for any...

MiaSole to Supply juwi Solar With Additional 8.5 MW of CIGS Photovoltaic Modules

August 30, 2010...MiaSole, a maker of glass-glass copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar panels, announced purchase agreements to supply German renewable energy company, juwi Solar GmbH with CIGS photovoltaic modules. The larger agreement is for 7.5 MW of MiaSole's CIGS thin-film modules and will be used in Q3 and Q4 of 2010 for ground mounted and rooftop projects throughout Germany. This...

Construction on TSMC Thin-Film CIGS Solar Cell Plant to Begin

August 30, 2010...Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), a large contract chip maker, reported that work on its first thin film solar cell plant is expected to begin in September, according to an article in Focus Taiwan. Rick Tsai, president of TSMC's new businesses division, indicated that the new plant will focus on developing modules for copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film...

German Researchers Break Own CIGS Efficiency Record

August 23, 2010...ZSW has produced a thin-film copper indium gallium diselenide solar cell with 20.3 percent efficiency. Scientists at the Zentrum für Sonne- nenergie- und Wasserstoff-Forschung Baden-Württemberg, Germany (Centre for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research, ZSW) have again achieved a success in striving to increase the electricity yield of solar cells, beating their own previous record of 20.1 percent efficiency. The Stuttgart researchers...

AQT to Bring CIGS Solar Production Facility Online

August 16, 2010...Applied Quantum Technologies (AQT) announced that it plans to bring its CIGS solar production facility online this month. The company is going ahead with the new facility despite hard times in the solar industry. The facility will be located in aptly named Sunnyvale, California. AQT got the money for the new facility from its recent $10 million funding round. AQT...

Honda Soltec Residential CIGS Modules Reach 11.6 Percent Efficiency

August 9, 2010...Honda Soltec Co., Ltd., Honda's wholly-owned solar cell subsidiary added to its lineup of home-use solar cell modules. The company began sales of two new residential-use solar cell modules with maximum output of 130W and 120W respectively. It also began selling a power conditioner with rated output of 5.5kW. The company says it has advanced its solar cell production technology to...

Solyndra to Provide 16.2 MW of PV Systems to Southern California Edison

August 2, 2010...Solyndra, Inc., of Fremont, California USA, a manufacturer of CIGs-based cylindrical solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, reports that has been awarded 20 year power purchase agreements to supply Southern California Edison. Solyndra's wholly-owned subsidiary which received the power purchase agreement, Photon Solar LLC., will provide the renewable electricity from 16.2 megawatts (MW) of rooftop photovoltaic solar systems on 18 rooftops. Corby...

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Miasolé Exceeds 14 Percent Efficiency With Commercial-Scale CIGS Solar Modules
Supposed to be a picture here... ... MiaSolé of Santa Clara, California USA, a maker of copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) thin-film photovoltaic solar panels announced an indepedently confirmed 14.3 percent efficiency for its 1 square meter modules. According to Miasole, the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory confirmed the results. Miasole says that 14.3 percent module efficiency is the highest independently confirmed efficiency...
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LED Lighting Summit Buzz: Walking the walk with decision makers
August 26, 2010... It's interesting when you arrange something like the LED lighting-focused SSL Summit to see who's really ready to walk the walk, rather than just talking the talk. Here you have an conference that's bringing in real facilities-oriented decision makers that should represent somewhere between 200 and 300 million square feet of commercially managed property in NYC, and that demands the "product visible" companies to meet some basic quality criteria. Suddenly more than a few of the hundreds...
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