thin-film technology

Now thin-film technology's prospects for making it to market are getting a financial boost.

Thin-film technologies reduce the amount of material required in creating the active material of solar cell.

Right now, the efficiencies of mass-produced silicon photovoltaic panels are closing in on 20 percent, and various thin-film technologies aren't that far behind.

Information retrieval, optical scanning, thin-film technology all require new kinds of expertise, while old occupations lose importance or vanish altogether.

He then raised yet another $15 million to create Solar Cells Inc., to work on a different thin-film technology, cadmium telluride.

For example, the Enron Corporation, the nation's largest natural gas company, recently proposed a 100-megawatt system using thin-film technology, which is the alternative to crystalline silicon.

Thin-film technology is inherently less expensive than market leading crystalline silicon because of the cost of the silicon substrate.

Thin-film technologies are also being developed as a means of substantially reducing the cost of photovoltaic (PV) systems.

Other thin-film technologies are typically between 5% and 13%, and traditional low-cost commercial silicon panels operate between 12% and 15%.

Kyocera (Basic Research Laboratory: optical and electronic devices, solar cells,advanced thin-film technologies)

Undergraduate biomedical engineering students at Johns Hopkins University have created a new drug delivery system based on the thin-film technology used by a breath freshener.

Within integrated circuits, high accuracy R-2R networks may be printed directly onto a single substrate using thin-film technology, ensuring the resistors share similar electrical characteristics.

Using thin-film technology, I.B.M. researchers have already packed hundreds of millions of characters of data on a standard 3.5-inch hard disk.

The company claimed the cells themselves convert 12 to 14 percent of sunlight into electricity, an efficiency better than competing CIGS thin-film technologies.

During the first few years of operation, its primary focus was to research the CIGS thin-film technology as well as researching efficient methods for manufacturing.

Thin-film technology was developed for Vaisala HUMICAP relative humidity sensors - the first in the world.

A practical advantage, one DSSCs share with most thin-film technologies, is that the cell's mechanical robustness indirectly leads to higher efficiencies in higher temperatures.

Thin-film technology could eventually replace lithium-ion batteries in laptop PC's or cellphones, analysts say, but only after the current technology has run its course, which may not be for years.

In 1997, the company founded Heraeus Sensor-Nite, specialised in temperature sensors needed in platinum thin-film technology for use in automotive construction, electronics and household appliances.

Thin-film technologies like physical vapour deposition (PVD) and chemical vapour deposition (CVD) are employed to apply the coating to the support surface.

With more than a 50 percent market share, Read-Rite is the primary beneficiary of the move from ferrite heads to thin-film technology, which produces smaller, lighter heads and is better suited to manufacturing automation.

After the built of the artificial wafer (the so-called Reconstitution) the electrical connections from the chip pads to the interconnects are realized in thin-film technology, like for any other classical Wafer Level Package.

Nanofilm started with capital gathered from a small group of individual investors led by Donald McClusky, who had recently retired as vice chairman of Goodyear when Dr. Rickert set out to commercialize his thin-film technology.

The division incorporates Erfurt-based Bosch Solar Thin Film GmbH, which is devoted to the production of thin-film solar modules and achieves significant savings in the raw material silicon with the aid of thin-film technology.

As you know, Solyndra, Inc., a California-based solar panel manufacturer specializing in a unique product: cylindrical solar tubes equipped with copper indium gallium diselenide thin-film technology, received a $535 million loan guarantee through the U.S. Department of Energy.