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• Lumerical Donates FDTD Software to Speed Nanophotonic Design in Australia
  
  Date: Oct 29, 2009
  The donated licenses will benefit research efforts across a range of applications, including silicon photonics-based optical interconnects, high efficiency solid-state lighting, and the design of thin film solar cell technologies.
• Orchid Technologies Designs Solar Power System
  
  Date: Sep 18, 2009
  Maynard, MA (September 18, 2009)- Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting, Inc., Designs Solar Power System. “Small to moderate sized solar energy arrays must make use of efficient, safe energy storage systems,” says Paul Nickelsberg, President and CTO of Orchid Technologies.
• National Semiconductor Enters Photovoltaic Market with Technology That Maximizes Solar Energy Production
  
  Date: Jun 30, 2008
  National’s SolarMagicTM technology extracts the maximum power efficiency of each photovoltaic panel, even when some panels in the array are compromised by shading, debris or inherent panel-to-panel mismatch.
• Orchid Technologies Designs Solar Power System
  
  Date: Sep 23, 2009
  Maynard, MA (September 23, 2009)- Orchid Technologies Engineering & Consulting, Inc., Designs Solar Power System. “Small to moderate sized solar energy arrays must make use of efficient, safe energy storage systems,” says Paul Nickelsberg, President and CTO of Orchid Technologies.
• Solar-powered Lead-Acid Battery Charger
  
  Date: Nov 10, 2008
  Increase the efficiency of harvesting solar power from photovoltaic cells with this design that efficiently converts sunlight into a charge current for lead-acid batteries.
• FDTD Solutions Release 6.5 Facilitates Thin-Film Solar Cell Design
  
  Date: Aug 6, 2009
  FDTD Solutions 6.5 provides enhanced capabilities to easily construct broadband material models and parameterized descriptions of complex nanophotonic devices amenable to systematic study and optimization.
• SOLAR PV forecast says industry will bounce back with adjusted priorities
  
  Date: May 28, 2009
  Scottsdale, Arizona---May 28, 2009---IC Insights announced today the release of a new report, its first to examine and analyze the solar photovoltaic industry from the perspective of semiconductor industry participants.
• Magma Launches YieldManager Solar – Proven Yield Enhancement Software Enables Solar Cell Fabs
  
  Date: Jul 6, 2009
  ...Causes of Yield Loss and Improve Energy Conversion of Solar Cells Source: Magma Design Automation 7/6/2009...increases yield and reduces the manufacturing costs of solar cells. Based on software proven in the semiconductor industry...engineers can quickly identify and correct root causes of solar energy conversion efficiency and yield degradation caused...costs and increase the yield of silicon wafer-based solar cells.” YieldManager Solar: Improving Yield and Efficiency of Photovoltaic Cells As with semiconductors, solar cells are produced using a variety of manufacturing tools...
• Magma to Develop Yield Enhancement Software for Solar Cell Fabs
  
  Date: Aug 26, 2008
  ...increase yield and reduce the manufacturing costs of solar cells. Magma is collaborating with Pegasus Semiconductor...collected as usable electricity. To produce enough solar cells to generate 500 megawatts a year, a solar cell fab...costs and increasing the yield of silicon wafer-based solar cells are critical to the growth of the solar market. Magma... Pegasus Semiconductor-Solar is working to bring solar energy into the energy infrastructure of semi-rural and urban...
• Solar power Coverage on EDN
  
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• Solar Cell Market for Thin Film Technology is Estimated to Grow Rapidly for Many Years to Come, According to the New Report
  
  Date: Mar 26, 2008
  ...film to become a major technology that reduces the solar power cost and even the cost of the traditional fire power...film to become a major technology that reduces the solar power cost and even the cost of the traditional fire power...Government Subsidy brought a great expansion of the global solar energy industry. Strong demands for the solar energy led to a solar grade polysilicon shortage and a very...electronics.ca/reports/power_pv/thin_film_ solar_ cells.html Click here for more information More...
• MacDermid Forms Photovoltaics (Solar Cell) Business
  
  Date: Aug 15, 2008
  MacDermid, Incorporated has announced the formation of Photovoltaics, a new business unit. This new group lead by Don Cullen is being formed to coordinate MacDermid’s global efforts towards this important industry.