Energy liberalization by decree

geography

department,

added

who

was optimistic

start

functioning

towards

with

solar

which

cells,

generation

that

Professor

Saify,

the institute

would

the end of this year will

of electricity,

also be used

being

produced

for

at the

institute. Initially, the electricity University

would

requirements

be met through

of solar technology, solar cells would

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the application

New Energy signs two 1O-year contracts

while in the second phase, the be produced

for commercial

use

California-based with

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Or 434923.

Andrew

Farms

‘The energy

expansion,

the

threat

shares for cash and non-cash

contribution,

~4,950,OOO. With ment

new

non-cash

will acquire

Technologies,

Hampshire, Freiberg,

based

and further

New

its 82% share of

Deutsche

GTi and SolarWorld

the

in GT Equip-

in Nashua,

increase

Germany-based

ation agreement

contributions

an interest

Solar GmbH. of solar silicon.

that,

has

process,

which,

form

thin

with

films

generators

Because

Fiber

& an

the

costs should The

consumer

markets.

Februaty 2002

does

is seeking

can

organic

and

not

require

delivered

and

of sunlight

to energy,

HCPV

on the market.

1 MW

a near-term needs

Farms,

the generators,

contract to be

but the company in solar

will

solar

as any other

HCPV

increase that

all

and found

by the fall of 2002,

energy

researched

solutions

product

electricity

eventually

exceed

100 MW. Teixerira

president

this

Norm

contract

reduction which

we

of our energy

is unheard

scarcity.

Teixeira

with

Because

said,

will

‘By

see

an

expenditures

of in this time the

generators

of are

to us free of cost, there is no down side

able

from

to meet impacting

our

fossil fuel. Also, we are energy

needs

without

the environment.’

For more information contact: New Energy Corporation, Email: necoQnewenergyco.com, http://www.newenergyco.com

Energy liberalization decree The EU commissioner

interested

commercialization

electronics

timely product

by

production

lower. partners

energy

(ISAM)

voltage,

processes,

be dramatically

company

in development the

process

energy

as efficient

four

negatively

conducting

vacuum-based

of

the company

Teixerira

includes

now

polymers from chemical solution. expensive

fuel derived

Corporation’s

to the transition

developed

injection

Substituting

were twice

solar energy

provided

monolayer applied

of

that

Energy

Luna seeks solar partners for thin-film ISAM process self-assembled

with

cooling

and

production

in the conversion

New

by 20%,

Technologies)

extruders production.

renewable

energy

ionically

havoc

materials

of our fossil

He added

immediate

Sensor

raw

uninterrupted

10.

(formerly

cost of energy,

caused

and

signing

Inc

high

president

solar, we will be able to guarantee

plans

Innovations

industry,

Miller,

with

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Luna

‘The

stopping

With

recently signed a cooper-

for the production

Cliff

our

its toll on many

plastics

blackouts,

inside

possible

the

with

(HCPV)

orders.’

increasing the share capital from e450,OOO to

company

said

of molten

moulders,

new

the

Martin. with

solidly

450,000

and Teixeira

the companies

crisis has taken

us,’

coupled

placing

agreements

Inc

photovoltaic

within

the majority further

Corporation

solar energy for a lo-year period.

of Andrew

AG has generated new capital for

Co

concentration

companies

SolarWorld funds acquisition and expansion

Miller

Inc, to provide

high

including

So&World

New Energy

has signed two energy purchase

and for export to the Middle East.

solar

for cell

policy,

Loyola

liberalize

who oversees energy

de Palacio,

Europe’s

is threatening

non-residential

to

gas and

electricity markets by decree, if member states fail to reach an agreement.

Photovoltaics Bulletin 0

Member

states have an agreement

gas and electricity

markets

2005. Attempts to

2003

to liberalise

for industrial

users by

collapsed

The European

last

year

Council

in March,

summit

time. ‘We believe this is the reason for

the enhanced

storage

capacity,’

Zhou

said.

to move bring that date forward due

to

when

French

in Barcelona,

their own council

will take up the issue

leaders

hold their spring

and energy

meeting

ministers

‘Voltage is also hindered

by the barrier

the

layers.

metal

and

organic

device, the potential

opposition.

again

diffusion

hold

For more information contact: Dr Otto Z. Zhou, Department of Physics & Astronomy, CB 3255 Phillips Hall, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. Tel: +1919 962 3297, Fax: +i 919 962 0480, Email: zhou@ http://www.physics. unc.edu IDhysicsuncedu,

organic

layer

tunnel

through.’

Despite

OLEDs

in June.

between with

drop from the barrier

is large

enough

the reduction

efficiency

But

our to the

for electrons

achieved,

the

of the device is not yet comparable

to

produced

pioneered

in voltage

to

using

the polymer

by UK-based

company

method

Cambridge

I

Beijing-made solar

Carbon nanotube research suggests longer battery life Experiments

with

carbon

nanotubes,

Chapel

Hill,

roughly

show

carbon

A locally

batteries.

possible

It also suggests

can

longer-lasting

that it should

nanotubes

rather

than

by UNC’s

were given

conventional

department

of physics

or curriculum

in applied

by Dr Hideo

Shimoda,

Gao, graduate

student;

Dr

Alfred

in a research

postdoctoral

Kleinhammes,

professors;

graduate

Dr Yue Wu and

sciences, fellow; Bo

Dr Xiao-Ping

Tang and

research

student

assistant

Leslie Fleming;

Dr Otto

Z. Zhou,

carbon

and others

the

experiments

similar

every six carbon that with

ion

for

every

explained

Most

rechargeable

graphite

electrodes

ion for

but we found

three

carbons,

in

materials

reactions

using

as one of the

occurring

at the

that generate

intense

laser beams.

allowed

@

a carbon

By chemical

carbon

target

processing,

to , the

were able to open the closed ends 01

the nanotubes

interior

created single-wall

by subjecting

researchers

and

the diffusion

reduce

their

of lithium

space of the nanotubes

Photovoltaics Bulletin

within

capacity

a 2,000 m2

order of 50 units,

30 days.

is 100,000

Its monthly

lengths.

This

ions into

the

and reduced

the

University

in

a small-

molecule

organic

light-emitting

diode

that operates at as low a voltage OLED.

have achieved to that

screen, at 2.52 V and 1000 cdlm2 The team, led by Professor the OLED’s transport out

operating

layers in a similar

routinely

in

a brightness

of

of a computer

by doping

the

way to that carried

inorganic

intrinsic

weights

vacuum

intrinsic

which

that

passes

charged

has two buffer

no

through

recombination

positive without

of an electron

layer

that

ensuring

that

all charged

the voltage

produces

layers

negative

meeting It

is

an the

and a hole in the a photon. particles

By

produce

is reduced.

‘If you have an undoped inject carriers

or

particle.

emissive

light,

with

technique.

section

ensure

oppositely

layers are

small molecules

in the region of 100, using a high

evaporation

The

and n-doped

relatively

there

in a test,

for longer

of

is no mention

the doped

than

But he acknowledges

of

device

an undoped

the lifetime

one.

issue needs

work. Technical

University

of Dresden,

with the Fraunhofer a spin-off

company,

in

Institute,

has

NovaLED,

to

the technology.

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Xantrex appointment Canadian-based Greg

chief operating market

layer, you have to

from the metal contacts,’

said Leo.

solutions

Xantrex

Technology

has

Brown

as president

and

officer, to lead the company’s

units,

manufacturing Xantrex

semiconductor

production.

atomic

that,

performed

product

are

renewable such

businesses

and traffic

disruptions;

mobile

electricity

in boats,

and

and

equipment facturing

power lights

equipment as

and medical

for

various

for homes,small

during

and

electric

to provide

trucks

products;

develop

grid

auxiliary

vehicles,

power to

power

microturbines

recreational

power

such

used

wind,

power

portable

programmable electronic

and

and distributed

as solar,

and fuel cells; back-up

cars

development

operations.

products

applications:

using

low. A key issue is the lifetime

this.’

appointed

at 2.9 V.

Karl Leo, reduced

voltage

at CDT,

is significant,

For more information contact: Prof Dr Karl Leo, lnstitut fur Angewandte Photophysik,Technische UniversiM Dresden, George-BahrStrasse 1, D-01069 Dresden, Germany. Tel: +49 351463 37533, Fax: +49 351463 37065, Email: [email protected], http://www.iapp.de

has produced

equivalent

and

commercialise

in Germany

The researchers

is still quite

the technology,

established

Dresden

100 cd/m2,

director

in voltage

applications

collaboration

Dresden’s SMOLED sneaks up on the Cambridge OLED?

as any polymer-based

for commercial

The

units.

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carrier

and store energy. The UNC scientists

a minimum

deliver

deposited

portable

batteries,

create a flow of electrons

nanotubes

can

engineering

reduction

Leo said

also makes solar panels,

in 1998, and operates

The pdoped,

batteries

today are lithium-ion

Redox

also

Zhou.

or carbonaceous

electrodes.

we can

we can store one charged

reversibly,’

electronics

the

which

lithium

atoms in graphite,

which

facility. It requires and

both

graphite,

one charged

nanotubes,

lithium

‘With

was established

(SMOLED)

nuclear

state

measurements,

results.

reversibly,

In

used

solid

in

numerous

Zhou.

researchers

resonance

showed store,

said

and

electrochemistry magnetic

of

because

applications,’

The company,

A team based at the Technical

associate

show a lot of interest

nanotubes

potential

is

and

professors. ‘Scientists

and the packaging

report

and astronomy

and materials

Heeks,

(CDT).

but the efficiency

according to customers’ requirements.

production

graphite electrodes. The findings

photoelectric

be

possible to store more energy in batteries using the

universal

The price is negotiable,

twice the energy density of

making

graphite,

patented,

Ipower supply from Beijing Solar Photoelectric Centre can be used with most cellphone brands.

con-

nanotubes

Karl

said: ‘The

ducted at the University of North Carolina at contain

Display Technology

and

and

test

power

precision

semiconductor

manu-

equipment.

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February 2002