‘Markets for integrated light emitter

Competitive Technologies Inc signed separate one-time fee agreements with Merck & Co, Roche Holdings AG and Toshiba Corporation for each company’s use of CTT technologies.Visit www.three-fives.com for the latest advanced semiconductor industry news     

Spire Florida formed to exploit PV opportunities

Massachusetts-based Spire Corporation has announced the incorporation of Spire Florida Inc, whose initial mandate will be to provide solar electric systems to the sunshine state’s renewable energy market. The new company’s initial venture, Spire Solar Florida, will introduce the company’s PV manufacturing technology and systems integration capabilities to utilities, municipalities and alterative energy suppliers in the state.This is a short news story only. Visit www.re-focus.net for the latest renewable energy industry news.     

Spire wins more funds to develop PV manufacturability

Bedford, Massachusetts-based Spire Corporation has been awarded a $5.2 million cost-shared contract from the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado, to develop automated manufacturing processes for fabricating Solar Brightfield™ large-scale solar electric modules.This is a short news story only. Visit www.re-focus.net for the latest renewable energy industry news     

Kyocera boosts output,new plants in Mexico,Europe

The world’s third-largest maker of solar cells, Japan-based Kyocera Corporation, is planning to increase PV cell and module manufacturing capacity in two production facilities in Japan, and also start manufacturing solar cell-based power-generating panels in Mexico and Europe in the latter half of 2004.Visit www.re-focus.net for the latest renewable energy industry news     

Carmanah order for USAF in Iraq

Canadian-based Carmanah Technologies Corporation has received another order for its aviation lights from a US Air Force base in Kirkuk, Iraq. The company will supply 120 Model 702 PV-powered LED lights to be used for obstruction lighting and helipad perimeter lighting.Visit www.re-focus.net for the latest renewable energy industry news     

Alcatel settles its stakes

Alcatel, Europe’s largest satellite maker, is to acquire Loral Space & Communications Ltd’s 47% share of the Europe *Star satellite system, as part of a transaction that successfully terminates Alcatel’s JV with Loral and resolves Alcatel’s litigation against Loral and its subsidiary, Space Systems/Loral Inc.This is a short news story only. Visit www.three-fives.com for the latest advanced semiconductor industry news.     

PV solar chargers plus for consumers

Universal Communication Systems, the Florida-based subsidiary of Solar One Corporation, has launched a new range of PV-powered products exclusively for consumer markets.This is a short news story only. Visit www.re-focus.net for the latest renewable energy industry news.     

Mykrolis signs agreement to acquire Aeronex

Mykrolis Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the assets of privately held Aeronex, a manufacturer of gas purification products. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, and the acquisition is subject to certain closing conditions.Visit www.three-fives.com for the latest advanced semiconductor industry news     

Konarka deal with world’s largest utility

Massachusetts-based Konarka Technologies has begun a cooperation with Electricité de France, the world’s largest utility company. Working through EdF’s Easenergy team based in the Silicon Valley, the companies will collaborate to develop and launch Konarka’s polymer PV products into the global market to provide a source of renewable power in a variety of form factors for commercial, industrial, government and consumer applications.Visit www.re-focus.net for the latest renewable energy industry news     

SiGen goes nano and fabless

Silicon Genesis Corporation, founded in 1997 and a developer of Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) and engineered wafer technologies, is to move towards the role of a fabless company, focusing efforts primarily on licensing its nano-technology processes.Visit www.three-fives.com for the latest advanced semiconductor industry news     

Uni-Solar,IES launch SolarQuilt roofing

Michigan-based United Solar Systems Corporation and Independent Energy Solutions (IES) in California have introduced the SolarQuilt, a solar energy product designed for all types of flat and low-slope roofing situations.This is a short news story only. Visit www.re-focus.net for the latest renewable energy industry news.     

TriStar solar charge controller launched

Morningstar Corporation of Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania is scaling up production and shipping orders of its TriStar controller, a three-function controller that provides solar battery charging, load control or diversion regulation.This is a short news story only. Visit www.re-focus.net for the latest renewable energy industry news.     

IntegraBus increases reliability of new BP Solar module

BP Solar’s newest PV module, the BP 3125 with a 125 W/12 V specification, marks the debut of the company’s IntegraBus technology, in a 157×157 mm multicrystalline cell, which the company claims is the largest cell currently available commercially.Visit www.re-focus.net for the latest renewable energy industry news     

New Jersey dealer network for RWE Schott Solar

German-based RWE Schott Solar plans to create a network of dealers in New Jersey to serve as the basis for a proposal to the state’s Board of Public Utilities (BPU) Office of Clean Energy’s new Renewable Energy and Economic Development Program.This is a short news story only. Visit www.re-focus.net for the latest renewable energy industry news.     

US,UK and Russia takes Nobels in economics,medicine and physics

American professor Robert Engle and Welsh physicist professor, Clive Granger who spent the ‘70s and ‘80s working at the University of California, San Diego, have won this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science for econometric statistical methods. The prize (about $1.3m) was not established by Alfred Nobel’s will, but created more recently in 1968 by Sweden’s central bank.Visit www.three-fives.com for the latest advanced semiconductor industry news     

PV home opens in Boston

The first new Energy Star Homes development to incorporate a PV system has opened in the Boston, Massachusetts suburb of Wrentham. A dozen Evergreen Solar PV panels on the each home’s roof are expected to generate 1250 kWh per year, based on New England’s climate.Visit www.re-focus.net for the latest renewable energy industry news     

UK delegation visits Japanese PV,London dissemination event

The aim of a recent UK Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) initiative was to gain first-hand information to help accelerate the UK’s position by interaction with counterparts in some leading Japanese facilities. The results of two complementary visits will be shared with the UK’s PV community through a single dissemination event in London on Tuesday 18 November.Visit www.re-focus.net for the latest renewable energy industry news     

PV augments wireless surveillance

Proxim Corporation in California, a manufacturer of wireless networking equipment, and Texas-based Hutton Communications Inc, a distributor of wireless communications equipment, have launched a PV-powered wireless surveillance solution. This gives customers the flexibility to deploy a security solution virtually anywhere it is needed.This is a short news story only. Visit www.re-focus.net for the latest renewable energy industry news.     

Pure business

Taiwan’s United Epitaxy Company (UEC) has eight HTG 40 hydrogen purifiers installed at its new fab. Supplied by Johnson Matthey’s Gas Purification Technology Group (JMGPT), the hydrogen purifiers will supply ultrapure hydrogen to UEC’s MOCVD reactors. Specifically for UEC, JMGPT designed units which allow two HTG 40s to be mounted in the same frame, resulting in an HTG 80, able to handle a flow of hydrogen up to 60 Nm³/hr.This is a short news story only. Visit www.three-fives.com for the latest advanced semiconductor industry news.     

Abatement technology

Matheson Tri-Gas Inc’s Electronics Group (MTEG) has launched ULTIMA-Sorb, a new and improved solution for hydride abatement.This is a short news story only. Visit www.three-fives.com for the latest advanced semiconductor industry news.