This means technological advances in areas such as structural and functional materials, power conversion, and reliability.
These include Microsoft, Qualcomm, Best Buy, Mandalay Bay and American Power Conversion.
Sandwiching the solar cells inside the device would block some light out and knock down power conversion efficiency even further, Filler cautioned.
In their tests, adding the virus-built structures enhanced the power conversion efficiency to 10.6 percent from 8 percent almost a one-third improvement.
Silicon has been the material of choice for power conversion devices.
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Transphorm plans to sell transistors separately, but it also plans to sell a more complete power conversion module that will contain both diodes and transistors.
FORBES: Google-backed Transphorm Raises $25M For Power Conversion Tech
Furthermore, the costs would be shared by key suppliers, such as Thales (power conversion prime), GS Yuasa (battery supplier), and Securaplane (a Meggitt subsidiary in charge of the battery charger), as their recent market sell-off indicates.
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What Transphorm is doing is making new kinds of power conversion devices, based on a material called gallium nitride (a substance best known for its use in LED lighting), which it embeds in modules and sells to equipment manufacturers.
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Back on July 27th, I wrote about how surprised I was to find shares of Power-One (PWER), a provider of renewable energy and energy-efficient power conversion and power management solutions such as photovoltaic inverters used in solar power applications, trade down after reporting blow-out second quarter results.
With this combination, 4% power-conversion efficiency for solution-processed and visibly transparent polymer solar cells has been achieved.
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About 10 percent of the power is lost with each conversion step, and that can add up to terawatt-hours of power that just goes to waste.
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Secondly, when considering end-to-end efficiency, it is much less energy-intensive to heat water by direct use of natural gas on-site, rather than by using that natural gas to first make electricity that is used to heat water because of the large conversion losses at power plants.
Before going to Aix, Gelb stopped in Basel to meet with the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, best known for their conversion of the Bankside power station, in London, into the Tate Modern.
If, on the one hand, you've got biofuels which represent only a half a percent conversion of sunlight, and let's say you've got photovoltaic cells and concentrated solar power systems, the efficiency of solar in terms of pure conversion is 50-100 times greater.
Another Evans penalty earned Quins a 12-7 half-time lead - and that advantage was extended just six minutes into ths second half when Karl Dickson broke off the back of a scrum, dummied one challenge and armed hooker Gray to power through by the posts, Evans adding the conversion.
Most recycled cooking oil today is used to power diesel trucks or mixed with home heating fuel, a simpler conversion process.
Soliola's misplaced pass lost possession deep inside his own half - setting up an attacking platform down the right - and Gleeson was on the end of it to power over in the right corner, Richards missing with the touchline conversion.
Conrad explained that Senate appropriators consider the conversion of a discretionary program to a mandatory one to be a usurpation of their power by the executive branch.
Toulon held up Roberts and Molitika initially on their own line but the power and pace of Roberts at last broke the resistance to crash over, Blair's conversion levelling things at 13-13.
Typically, half the power they drew from the wall, and sometimes as much as 80%, would be lost in conversion.
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Making the conversion with integrated circuits is much more efficient, with as little as 20% of the power being lost.
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