Solar Power World

Hyundai To Build Korea’s Largest Thin-Film Solar Factory

Korea’s largest thin-film solar cell factory is set to be built by Hyundai Heavy is joining forces with and France’s Saint-Gobain.  Under the contract, Hyundai Heavy Industries and Saint-Gobain will each invest 50% of the 220 billion won solar cell factory. Construction will start from December 2010 and is scheduled to be completed by the first half of 2012.Hyundai Heavy held a signing ceremony for the construction contract in Paris Upon completion, the solar cell... Read More

Magnolia Solar Receives $1M To Advance Thin-Film Solar Cells

Magnolia Solar has received a US$1 million award from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). This award is to develop advanced thin-film solar cells in partnership with the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) of the University at Albany. Magnolia Solar will work in close collaboration with faculty and scientists from CNSE’s Energy and Environmental Technology Applications Center (E2TAC) at CNSE’s Albany NanoTech... Read More

Improve efficiency of Solar Panels With Photon Management

Many people see solar energy as the energy source of the future. After all: the amount of solar energy reaching the earth is around 10,000 times more than the amount of energy we use. But today’s solar panels are expensive and their potential yield is limited. One way of making solar cells cheaper is to use a much thinner layer of semi-conducting material. The layer of semi-conducting material in thin film solar cells is around 1,000 times thinner than that of the regular crystalline... Read More