Overcoming these limitations is a particularly attractive prospect because thin-film solar cells can be rapidly deposited on large areas, through the self-assembly of microstructures, at a cost lower than for the current concentrator cells (which are ...

Qiaoqiang Gan, University at Buffalo assistant professor of electrical engineering, is helping develop a new generation of photovoltaic cells that produce more power and cost less to manufacture than what is available today, according to the University ...

Because a silicon thin film less than a few micrometer thick is used as the power-generating layer, thin-film silicon solar cells are largely free from resource constraints and can be fabricated on large substrates by using plasma-assisted chemical ...

His research involves thin-film solar cells, too, but unlike what's on the market he is using organic materials such as polymers and small molecules that are carbon-based and less expensive. “Compared with their inorganic counterparts, organic ...

German manufacturer SMA is to supply 114 of its Sunny Central 900CP XT inverters to what is said to be Europe's largest thin-film PV power plant in Templin in Brandenburg, Germany. The project has a nominal capacity of 128MWp and will provide ...

Dr Dominik Berg, University of Luxembourg, has received the €10 000 Umicore Scientific Award for his ground breaking PhD work in the field of thin film photovoltaics. Dr Berg's entry was one of 35 submitted from all over Europe. His pioneering research ...

Belectric has connected the largest thin-film-ground-mounted solar power plant in Europe to the energy grid in Templin, Brandenburg in Germany. With an installed nominal power of 128 MWp, the power plant on the largest former Russian military airfield, ...

In 1970, he joined RCA Laboratories in Princeton, NJ as a member of the technical staff and worked in the areas of ion motion in glasses, glow-discharge deposition of thin films and thin-film photovoltaic devices. Carlson invented the amorphous silicon ...