Alta Devices
By Jeanne Roberts on February 10, 2012
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For the second time in as many months, a solar manufacturer is announcing record conversion efficiencies for its solar energy-harvesting products.
By Jeanne Roberts on July 29, 2011
Tags: First Solar Inc., GE, Lux Research, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Piper Jaffray Co., Spire Semiconductor, SunPower, Swiss Federal Laboratories, Germany, USD, all-back contact Maxeon, Alta Devices, amorphous silicon (A-Si), cadmium telluride (CdTe), copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS), First Solar Inc., Fraunhofer Institute, gallium arsenide (GaAs), GE Energy, grid parity, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Shockley Queisser limit, solar cell, solar efficiency, solar electricity, solar panel, solar photovoltaic (PV), Spire Semiconductor, SunPower, thin film, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, Ahmar Zaman, Arizona, California, chemical, electricity, energy, Hawaii, manufacturing, Matt Feinstein, oil, U.S. Department of Energy
First Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), billed as the “world’s most valuable solar company”, has announced a new efficiency record for its cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) solar cell.
