solar cell

After Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) announced to end its solar business, the company plans to sell 29.16 million common shares of Motech, or approximately 6% of the solar cell maker's paid-in-capital. It intend...  more

Intevac, Inc., a major supplier of thin-film deposition equipment to the vacuum coating industry, announced on September 3rd the order of an INTEVAC MATRIX™ thin-film processing system, by a Tier 1 solar cell manufacturer, for hig...  more

Solar Frontier, the world’s largest CIS thin film solar cell producer, has innovated a new CIS cell with a conversion efficiency as high as 10%. The new product is scheduled to be put on shelves in 2018. A series of prototype ult...  more

CNPV signed an agreement to develop 300 billion won (US$ 270 million) plant facilities for solar cell and module production in Saemangeum. The agreement was signed on June 10th at an investment briefing in Yeouido. CNPV's '...  more

Mosel Vitelic Inc., a Taiwan-based semiconductor maker, has announced to halt its PV cells production. Although Mosel’s production capacity is too small to cause serious impact to the global solar PV supply chain, the retreat ring...  more

Tempress Group Holding, B.V. announced that it has acquired a majority ownership interest in SoLayTec, B.V., located in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from RENA. SoLayTec is a provider of atomic layer deposition (ALD) systems used in...  more

Soitec and CEA-Leti, France, together with the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy System ISE, Germany, achieved a new world record of 46 percent efficiency for the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity using a multi-ju...  more