| American Chemical Society Awards Fellowship to Nanomaterials Researcher August 24, 2010...Rigoberto Advincula was among the 2010 class of American Chemical Society (ACS) fellows that were honored along with 191 other inductees at a ceremony during the annual ACS meeting in Boston. The fellows program was started in 2009 to recognize outstanding contributions to science and the chemistry profession.
Advincula is among 13 from Texas who received the honor this year. At... NIST Researchers Develop Method for Producing GaN NanowiresJuly 26, 2010...Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have been able to grow thousands of evenly spaced nanowires on silicon in a formation that looks like a pin screen. The researchers detailed their experiments in Advanced Functional Materials.
The gallium nitride nanowires were relatively defect free and pure. The researchers claim to have controlled the diameter and placement... President Obama Commits $2 billion for Two Solar CompaniesJuly 5, 2010...As part of the $2.3 pledged for Solar Projects back in January, President Obama announced on his weekly video address that the U.S. Department of Energy has offered the conditional commitment of $1.45 billion loan guarantee to Abengoa Solar Inc. The President also announced the conditional commitment of $400 million loan guarantee to Abound Solar.
Abengoa Solar, a company based... DARPA Awards Ascent Solar Team Contract for Portable Photovoltaics (PoP) ProgramJune 28, 2010...The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Ascent Solar for an award under the Low-Cost Lightweight Portable Photovoltaics (PoP) solicitation.
The Ascent Solar-led program, entitled "Flexible High-performance Tandem-junction PV Array", consists of three gated phases. The 18-month first phase of the 54-month program has an contract value of about $3.8M. The goal of PoP program is to demonstrate... Veeco Awarded $800K In Matching Funds from Minnesota for Solar TechnologyJune 28, 2010...Veeco Intruments Inc. of St. Paul Minnesota USA, reports that its St. Paul operation was awarded $800,000 in matching funds by the Minnesota Department of Commerce’s Office of Energy Security. The money comes from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support emerging renewable energy technology. The matching funds were awarded for a 1.5 year project that will expedite Veeco’s... Spire Corporation Wins Contract to Develop Multi-Junction Solar Cells for Space ApplicationsJune 7, 2010...Spire Corporation, a maker of turnkey photovoltaic cell and module production lines, reports that its wholly owned subsidary, Spire Semiconductor has been awarded a contract from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to develop high efficiency, multi-junction solar cells for space applications. Such cells are similar to the ones that the company is developing for the terrestrial solar concentrator market.
Ed Gagnon,... Oregon Department of Energy to Consider Loan for Thin-Film Solar PlantMay 24, 2010...The Oregon Department of Energy's state Energy Loan Program (SELP) will meet
at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 25 in Salem to review loan requests. SELP makes long-term, fixed-rate loans to governments, tribes, schools, non-profit organizations, businesses, and individuals to finance Oregon projects that conserve energy or use renewable resources.
The third loan request on the agenda is for $25 million... 3M and NREL to Research Moisture Barrier for Thin-Film Photovoltaics and Reflectors for Solar Concentrator and Solar Photovoltaic PlantsMay 17, 2010...The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory and 3M, of St. Paul, Minnesota, have jointly undertaken research and development projects in three key areas of clean energy: thin-film photovoltaics, concentrating solar power, and biofuels. 3M and NREL will work to develop and test new moisture barrier films and flexible packaging for thin film solar cells made of...
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... 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... 
