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* Ocean Fan designs, manufactures and markets high-efficiency solar panels and photovoltaic (PV) cells. With state-of-the-art facility, innovation technology and over 25 years of experiences of manufacturing electronical appliances, Ocean Fan will have capability of producing 100 megawatts annually by the end of 2008.
* 8/20/07: Silicon Nano Crystals could reach 60% efficient with concentrators! Scientists at the NREL have proven that certain silicon nano-cyrstals can produce two to three electrons per photon of high energy sunlight. The discover could lead to increasingly inexpensive and efficient silicon solar cells. Senior research fellow Arthur Nozik notes that current silicon cells are theoretically limited to roughly 30% efficiency on their own, and 40% efficiency with concentrating mirrors. This new kind of cell, however, could be easily be 40% efficient on their own and up to 60% efficient with concentrators!
* 8/18/2007: GM partnerships with A123Systems, the world's leading suppliers of high-power lithium ion batteries using Nanophosphate™ technology to deliver previously unattainable levels of power, safety and life, will likely have it's plug-in Saturn VUE ready by late 2009 with the Chevy Volt following not long after that.
* 7/31/2007: Organic solar cells. Supramolecular composites of porphyrins and fullerenes organized by polypeptide structures as light harvesters. Solar cells capable of incident photon-to-current conversion efficiency of up to 56% were constructed using a series of porphyrin–peptide oligomers and fullerene assemblies.
* 4/18/2007: Wake Forest University as researchers at the university’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have announced that they have pushed the efficiency of plastic solar cells to more than 6 percent.
* 4/9/2007: Maryland legislature passed a world-class solar program - 1,400 MW of solar on rooftops over the next 15 years, putting Maryland in the upper echelon of solar-supporting states.
* New World Record in Solar Cell Efficiency Achieved Using a Veeco MOCVD System (news from compoundsemi.com)
February 2, 2007... Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that its Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) technology enabled an important recent advancement in solar cell efficiency. On December 5, 2006, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that Spectrolab, Inc. has achieved a world record concentrator solar cell conversion efficiency of 40.7 percent. This solar cell conversion efficiency was achieved using a Veeco TurboDisc As/P MOCVD System, which deposits epitaxial films. Spectrolab, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company.
The 40.7 percent efficient cell was developed using a multi-junction solar cell structure. This type of cell achieves a higher efficiency than single junction cells by capturing more of the solar spectrum and utilizing it more efficiently. The solar cells are manufactured in a single epitaxial growth process, which requires excellent control and repeatability from the MOCVD system.
"Veeco congratulates Spectrolab on its record efficiency. We look forward to teaming with Spectrolab for continued solar cell efficiency improvements," commented Piero Sferlazzo, Vice President, General Manager of Veeco's MOCVD Operations.
According to the DOE, attaining a 40 percent efficient concentrating solar cell means having another technology pathway for producing cost-effective solar electricity. This breakthrough may lead to solar systems with an installation cost of only $3 per watt, or less, producing electricity at a cost of 8-10 cents per kilowatt/hour, making solar electricity a more cost-competitive and integral part of our nation's energy mix. Almost all of today's solar cell modules do not concentrate sunlight but use only what the sun produces naturally, what researchers call "one sun insolation," which achieves an efficiency of 12 to 18 percent. However, by using an optical concentrator, sunlight intensity can be increased, producing more electricity from a single solar cell.
Engineered for the high-volume production of compound semiconductor materials, Veeco's TurboDisc As/P tools are quickly being adopted by the industry as the "tool of choice" for high volume production of devices such as solar cells, red, orange and yellow HB-LEDs, laser diodes, pHEMTs and HBTs. The system offers a level of process control and reliability unmatched by competing MOCVD technologies. With integrated RealTemp 200 technology for direct wafer temperature control and fast gas switching for strict control of interface abruptness, these technically advanced systems provide superior material quality and process efficiency.
About the Solar America Initiative
Reaching 40 percent efficiency helps further President Bush's Solar America Initiative (SAI) goals, which aims to win nationwide acceptance of clean solar energy technologies by 2015. By then, it is intended that America will have enough solar energy systems installed to provide power to one to two million homes, at a cost of 5 to 10 cents per kilowatt/hour. The SAI is also a key component of President Bush's Advanced Energy Initiative, which provides a 22 percent increase in research and development funding at DOE and seeks to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of oil by changing the way we power our cars, homes and businesses. For more information, visit the SAI website at: .
About Veeco
Veeco Instruments Inc. provides solutions for nanoscale applications in the worldwide semiconductor, data storage, HB-LED/wireless and scientific research markets. Our Metrology products are used to measure at the nanoscale and our Process Equipment tools help create nanoscale devices. Veeco's manufacturing and engineering facilities are located in New York, New Jersey, California, Colorado, Arizona and Minnesota. Global sales and service offices are located throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Asia Pacific. Additional information on Veeco can be found at .
To the extent that this news release discusses expectations about market condition, market acceptance and future sales of Veeco's products, Veeco's future financial performance, future disclosures, or otherwise makes statements about the future, such statements are forward-looking and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made.These factors include the challenges of continuing weakness in end market conditions and the cyclical nature of the semiconductor, data storage, HB-LED wireless and scientific research markets, risks associated with integrating acquired businesses and the acceptance of new products by individual customers and by the marketplace and other factors discussed in the Business Description and Management's Discussion and Analysis sections of Veeco's Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K . Veeco does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances after the date of such statements.
* GoSun wrote in with an article about new solar panels that opens, "Sunlight has never really caught fire as a power source, mostly because generating electricity with solar cells is more expensive and less efficient than some conventional sources. But a new solar panel unveiled this month by the Georgia Tech Research Institute hopes to brighten the future of the energy source." The new panels are able to produce sixty times the current of traditional models.
* Choosing an environmentally friendly home is one of the important factors for homebuyers, according to new Nationwide research.
The company found 82 per cent of survey respondents would be interested in a house because it had solar panels, much higher than the 63 per cent who want period features or the 41 per cent looking for a good school nearby.
Understandably, the single most popular factor was a good neighbourhood, with easily accessible and spacious parking coming a close second.
"It is great to see that, given the choice, most of us would opt for a 'green' home, although there's currently no evidence to suggest that environmentally friendly properties command a higher price," said Fionnuala Earley, chief economist at Nationwide.
"Having said that, with the recent publication of the government's climate change bill and the pressure on households to become more energy efficient, it is inevitable that environmental home improvements will have some impact on house prices over the long-term," she added.
The government has announced plans to encourage people to install mini wind turbines and solar panels, home improvements for which small grants are often available.
Furthermore, going green needn't cost the Earth, as a competitive secured loan or homeowner loan is an affordable way to raise extra money for home improvements.
* Solar Powered water heater are very common in Yunnan, China. It is one way to save electricity usage and Yunnan province simply have enough sunlight to power up these solar panel. You will definitely find all the building roof top here fully installed with these solar panels.
* Ocean Fan designs, manufactures and markets high-efficiency solar panels and photovoltaic (PV) cells. With state-of-the-art facility, innovation technology and over 25 years of experiences of manufacturing electronical appliances, Ocean Fan will have capability of producing 100 megawatts annually by the end of 2008.
* 8/20/07: Silicon Nano Crystals could reach 60% efficient with concentrators! Scientists at the NREL have proven that certain silicon nano-cyrstals can produce two to three electrons per photon of high energy sunlight. The discover could lead to increasingly inexpensive and efficient silicon solar cells. Senior research fellow Arthur Nozik notes that current silicon cells are theoretically limited to roughly 30% efficiency on their own, and 40% efficiency with concentrating mirrors. This new kind of cell, however, could be easily be 40% efficient on their own and up to 60% efficient with concentrators!
* 8/18/2007: GM partnerships with A123Systems, the world's leading suppliers of high-power lithium ion batteries using Nanophosphate™ technology to deliver previously unattainable levels of power, safety and life, will likely have it's plug-in Saturn VUE ready by late 2009 with the Chevy Volt following not long after that.
* 7/31/2007: Organic solar cells. Supramolecular composites of porphyrins and fullerenes organized by polypeptide structures as light harvesters. Solar cells capable of incident photon-to-current conversion efficiency of up to 56% were constructed using a series of porphyrin–peptide oligomers and fullerene assemblies.
* 4/18/2007: Wake Forest University as researchers at the university’s Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have announced that they have pushed the efficiency of plastic solar cells to more than 6 percent.
* 4/9/2007: Maryland legislature passed a world-class solar program - 1,400 MW of solar on rooftops over the next 15 years, putting Maryland in the upper echelon of solar-supporting states.
* New World Record in Solar Cell Efficiency Achieved Using a Veeco MOCVD System (news from compoundsemi.com)
February 2, 2007... Veeco Instruments Inc. announced today that its Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) technology enabled an important recent advancement in solar cell efficiency. On December 5, 2006, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that Spectrolab, Inc. has achieved a world record concentrator solar cell conversion efficiency of 40.7 percent. This solar cell conversion efficiency was achieved using a Veeco TurboDisc As/P MOCVD System, which deposits epitaxial films. Spectrolab, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company.
The 40.7 percent efficient cell was developed using a multi-junction solar cell structure. This type of cell achieves a higher efficiency than single junction cells by capturing more of the solar spectrum and utilizing it more efficiently. The solar cells are manufactured in a single epitaxial growth process, which requires excellent control and repeatability from the MOCVD system.
"Veeco congratulates Spectrolab on its record efficiency. We look forward to teaming with Spectrolab for continued solar cell efficiency improvements," commented Piero Sferlazzo, Vice President, General Manager of Veeco's MOCVD Operations.
According to the DOE, attaining a 40 percent efficient concentrating solar cell means having another technology pathway for producing cost-effective solar electricity. This breakthrough may lead to solar systems with an installation cost of only $3 per watt, or less, producing electricity at a cost of 8-10 cents per kilowatt/hour, making solar electricity a more cost-competitive and integral part of our nation's energy mix. Almost all of today's solar cell modules do not concentrate sunlight but use only what the sun produces naturally, what researchers call "one sun insolation," which achieves an efficiency of 12 to 18 percent. However, by using an optical concentrator, sunlight intensity can be increased, producing more electricity from a single solar cell.
Engineered for the high-volume production of compound semiconductor materials, Veeco's TurboDisc As/P tools are quickly being adopted by the industry as the "tool of choice" for high volume production of devices such as solar cells, red, orange and yellow HB-LEDs, laser diodes, pHEMTs and HBTs. The system offers a level of process control and reliability unmatched by competing MOCVD technologies. With integrated RealTemp 200 technology for direct wafer temperature control and fast gas switching for strict control of interface abruptness, these technically advanced systems provide superior material quality and process efficiency.
About the Solar America Initiative
Reaching 40 percent efficiency helps further President Bush's Solar America Initiative (SAI) goals, which aims to win nationwide acceptance of clean solar energy technologies by 2015. By then, it is intended that America will have enough solar energy systems installed to provide power to one to two million homes, at a cost of 5 to 10 cents per kilowatt/hour. The SAI is also a key component of President Bush's Advanced Energy Initiative, which provides a 22 percent increase in research and development funding at DOE and seeks to reduce our dependence on foreign sources of oil by changing the way we power our cars, homes and businesses. For more information, visit the SAI website at: .
About Veeco
Veeco Instruments Inc. provides solutions for nanoscale applications in the worldwide semiconductor, data storage, HB-LED/wireless and scientific research markets. Our Metrology products are used to measure at the nanoscale and our Process Equipment tools help create nanoscale devices. Veeco's manufacturing and engineering facilities are located in New York, New Jersey, California, Colorado, Arizona and Minnesota. Global sales and service offices are located throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Asia Pacific. Additional information on Veeco can be found at .
To the extent that this news release discusses expectations about market condition, market acceptance and future sales of Veeco's products, Veeco's future financial performance, future disclosures, or otherwise makes statements about the future, such statements are forward-looking and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from the statements made.These factors include the challenges of continuing weakness in end market conditions and the cyclical nature of the semiconductor, data storage, HB-LED wireless and scientific research markets, risks associated with integrating acquired businesses and the acceptance of new products by individual customers and by the marketplace and other factors discussed in the Business Description and Management's Discussion and Analysis sections of Veeco's Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K . Veeco does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking statements to reflect future events or circumstances after the date of such statements.
* GoSun wrote in with an article about new solar panels that opens, "Sunlight has never really caught fire as a power source, mostly because generating electricity with solar cells is more expensive and less efficient than some conventional sources. But a new solar panel unveiled this month by the Georgia Tech Research Institute hopes to brighten the future of the energy source." The new panels are able to produce sixty times the current of traditional models.
* Choosing an environmentally friendly home is one of the important factors for homebuyers, according to new Nationwide research.
The company found 82 per cent of survey respondents would be interested in a house because it had solar panels, much higher than the 63 per cent who want period features or the 41 per cent looking for a good school nearby.
Understandably, the single most popular factor was a good neighbourhood, with easily accessible and spacious parking coming a close second.
"It is great to see that, given the choice, most of us would opt for a 'green' home, although there's currently no evidence to suggest that environmentally friendly properties command a higher price," said Fionnuala Earley, chief economist at Nationwide.
"Having said that, with the recent publication of the government's climate change bill and the pressure on households to become more energy efficient, it is inevitable that environmental home improvements will have some impact on house prices over the long-term," she added.
The government has announced plans to encourage people to install mini wind turbines and solar panels, home improvements for which small grants are often available.
Furthermore, going green needn't cost the Earth, as a competitive secured loan or homeowner loan is an affordable way to raise extra money for home improvements.
* Solar Powered water heater are very common in Yunnan, China. It is one way to save electricity usage and Yunnan province simply have enough sunlight to power up these solar panel. You will definitely find all the building roof top here fully installed with these solar panels.
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