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Composite Created with Specific Optical Properties

When it comes to creating nanostructured composite materials with specific optical and electrical properties, size matters. MORE >>

Quantum Materials Relocating QD Lab

Quantum Materials Corp. is moving its tetrapod quantum dot laboratories to San Marcos to take advantage of facilities at STAR (Science Technology and Academic Research) Park. MORE >>

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Copper Doping Produces Perfect QDs

A procedure that reliably produces perfect quantum dots, each doped with exactly four copper ions, has opened up possibilities for fine-tuning the nanocrystals’ optical proper...

Solar Cell Material Made in the Microwave

Most people use microwaves to reheat leftovers, and some even experiment with marshmallows, inflating them like a balloon; but what if you could use the same home oven to make...

CSEM Joins EU Project on Flexible OLEDs

CSEM SA, the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology, has joined a €11.2 million (about $14.7 million) project to help commercialize flexible OLEDs. The project ...

Polymer Solar Cell Efficiency Hits 8.9 Percent

The highly purified silicon crystal used in today’s commercial solar cells could be replaced with more economical, disposable, polymer-based materials if their efficienc...

Societies Name Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows

Two PhD candidates at the University of Colorado at Boulder will serve as 2013-2014 Congressional Science and Engineering Fellows, the optics and photonics societies OSA, SPIE...

SBIR Grants Awarded for OLED Lighting

Four Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants targeting advances in solid-state-lighting technology were announced Monday by the US Department of Energy’s Office...

German President Meets with Novaled Founders

As part of his first official tour of Saxony, President Joachim Gauck of Germany visited the Technical University of Dresden and met with Novaled AG’s founders. Pre...

Tomato Yield Not Affected by LED-Lit Greenhouses

LED-equipped greenhouses can grow the same number of off-season tomatoes as those outfitted with traditional lighting, but using a lot less energy, a new Purdue University stu...

Collaborations

Magnolia Solar Inc., a subsidiary of Magnolia Solar Corp., has demonstrated a flexible copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) solar cell with 13 percent efficiency. The new cel...

Carbon nanotube detector works in the infrared at room temperature

A photodetector that uses carbon nanotube films of varying widths can gather light in and beyond visible wavelengths, a finding that promises to make possible a unique set of ...

Graphene highly efficient at converting light to electricity

Graphene is even more efficient at converting light to electricity than was previously known, making it an ideal building block for any device that relies on such conversions,...

Spectroscopy method could lead to better optical devices

A new spectroscopy method takes advantage of a fundamental property of thin films – interference – and could help optical devices like LEDs and solar cells make be...

New Photocatalyst Enhances VIS Light Absorption

A high-performance solar photocatalyst based on TiO2 and other “metallic” oxides has been shown to greatly enhance visible light absorption, enabling more efficient use of the...

Solar3D Files Patent Application in China

Solar3D Inc. has filed a patent application in China to protect the design and fabrication of its next-generation 3-D solar cells.

System Aims to Concentrate Power of 2000 Suns

A photovoltaic system capable of harnessing the power of 2000 suns and converting 80 percent of incoming light into useful energy could provide sunny, remote locations with el...

First Solar to Acquire TetraSun

First Solar Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire solar photovoltaic technology startup TetraSun from JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp. and other investors, including T...

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PV-LIT Infrared Test System

Armstrong Optical Ltd. has introduced PV-LIT, a fully automatic optronic IR test system manufactured by InfraTec GmbH in Germany for use in solar cell and solar module testing...

ContourGT-K 3-D Optical Microscope

Bruker Corp. has released the ContourGT-K, the latest addition to its ContourGT line of 3-D optical microscopes The scalable device features patented, higher-brightness dual-L...

Vacuum CCD

Driven by the Sony ICX674 and ICX694 chips, the Kingfisher V from Raptor Photonics Ltd. is a deep-cooled vacuum interline scientific CCD camera. The digital monochrome camera ...

Photonics Prism Awards Finalists Offer Solutions for Pollution, Manufacturing, Brain Imaging, More

Sensors for monitoring environmental toxins and detecting explosives, powerful new lasers for manufacturing, and tools for non-invasive imaging deep inside the brain are among...

Illumination/Optical Analysis Software

TracePro 7.3 is the latest release of Lambda Research Corp.’s illumination and optical analysis software. It features a fully automated interactive solar analysis utilit...

CMOS-Based Isolators

Silicon Laboratories Inc. has introduced a drop-in replacement for optocouplers based on CMOS technology and incorporating an LED emulator input. The Si87xx digital isolators ...

Molding Technology

Docter Optics GmbH provides vendors of concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) systems with optical components produced with the use of its DOCFast molding technology. CPV designs...

Spectroradiometers

The SR-500 and SR-1100 spectroradiometers from Spectral Evolution can validate the class of any commercially available continuous output solar simulator, per IEC 60904-9/ASTM ...


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