It is an inflatable pouch that has a thin-film solar panel with two-coin cell rechargeable batteries.
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In fact I believe they are leading the pack in thin-film CIGS companies on flexible substrates.
California is the proposed location for this project, which plans to manufacture highly efficient thin-film photovoltaic modules.
The obvious case in point is thin-film titan First Solar, born in Toledo, headquartered in Phoenix, Ariz.
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SoloPower makes thin-film solar cells but rather than package them into a rigid panel, its solar collectors are flexible strips.
If crystalline silicon or other thin-film technologies compete with cadmium telluride on costs, buyers might opt to avoid First Solar's toxicity.
Dow itself invested in thin-film solar startup NuvoSun for its solar shingles and shut down its internal work on thin-film solar.
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In the meanwhile, it is imperative that the firm continues making progress with cost reductions and efficiency improvements for its thin-film panels.
Solar CIS, which stands for copper, indium and selenium, are solar photovoltaic (PV) modules that leverage the latest developments in thin-film technology.
This design, combined with flexible, thin-film batteries, could lead to a flat device that is far less obtrusive than a lumpy generator.
It has been concluded therefore that in the future less than 1% of solar pv will be in the form of CIGS thin-film cells.
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These turned out to be thin-film photovoltaic cells, of the sort that could be sewn into a backpack and used to power a laptop.
If Apple does not receive the thin-film panels before that, it is highly unlikely that the new iPad will ship during the third quarter.
The panels are various new thin-film technologies that Chevron thinks could cost less than current thin film technologies or traditional crystalline silicon solar cells.
IBM's approach is based on a process developed by IBM Research to crank out so-called thin-film solar cells based on copper, indium, gallium and selenide.
And the Energy Conversion exec adds that the company is working on new technology that should improve the conversion efficiency of its thin-film solar products.
The attraction of cadmium telluride thin-film solar is its lower cost.
That has made thin-film solar particularly attractive to utilities that have deployed them in huge arrays on the ground to generate hundreds of megawatts of electricity.
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In a statement, the Solyndra said it would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy while exploring a sale of the business or licensing its thin-film photovoltaic technology.
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Nanosolar, furthermore, a maker of thin-film solar cells, has a project in Spain that applies nano-science that will provide 16, 500 megawatt hours of electricity each year.
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As conventional photovoltaic module prices plunged, thin-film companies found themselves under increasing pressure to raise the efficiency of their products and lower manufacturing costs to remain competitive.
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The thin-film solar panels, developed by Honda, are more efficient than current solar panels, so Honda will market them on their own to homes and small businesses.
The wings are covered with a sheet of thin-film solar panels, which produce less power than the polycrystalline solar panels found on buildings, but are very lightweight.
In the garments, body temperature is monitored through a thin-film transistor, while respiration is gauged using electrical resistance, but both technologies employ the pentacene as a sensing layer.
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Thin-film solar makers want to work with the 64-square-foot sheets of glass used by Applied's LCD customers, but solar glass is four times as thick as display glass.
Solar stocks are heading lower across the board this morning following an alarming earnings warning after the close yesterday by thin-film solar provider Energy Conversion Devices (ENER).
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The provider of thin-film solar products recently warned that it was reducing production in the face of subsidy cuts in Italy and France, and the stock slumped.
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When it does, suppliers believe that Apple will replace its old technology with thin-film touch panels the same type of panels that are currently used in the iPad Mini.
Lee Keun Joo, a senior analyst at Daewoo Securities, predicts a steady 21% rise in annual revenues until 1999, thanks to telecommunications and Hyundai's thin-film transistor liquid-crystal display (TFT-LCD) operations.
Some may remember Konarka, a Massachusetts-based company working on creating flexible thin-film solar that could be applied to everything from tent material to clothing to the roof of a bus.
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