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The 2009 Toyota Prius to be Solar Powered

Reuters is reporting that Toyota plans to install solar panels on its next-generation Prius hybrid cars, becoming the first major automaker to use solar power for a vehicle.

From KYOCERA Corporation 7 Jul 2008

Dow Bolsters Building Materials Business with Roofing System Acquisition

Dow Building Solutions (DBS), a market-facing business unit of The Dow Chemical Company, announced today that it has completed its acquisition of Stevens® Roofing Systems and Geomembrane Systems. On June 11, Dow anno...

4 Jul 2008

Applied Material to Collaborate on Thin Films for Next Generation Displays

The U.S. Display Consortium (USDC), a public/private partnership chartered with developing the flat panel display and flexible electronics supply chain, today announced a cost-shared contract award with Applied Materials...

4 Jul 2008

Ludwig-Maximilians University Look to Fabricate Hybrid Solar Cells with New PVD Acquisition

Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) has ordered an advanced sputtering tool from Surrey NanoSystems, to support fundamental research into the fabrication of hybrid solar cells. $$IMAGE$$ The tool will be used to d...

4 Jul 2008

Applied Materials to Collaborate on Metal Oxide Films for Display Technologies

2 Jul 2008

The Battle for Thin-Film Solar Technology Starts to Hot Up

After years of heady growth in the PV market led largely by crystalline silicon, thin-film technology has reached a critical mass and is poised to start taking significant market share from incumbent technology. Thin-fil...

2 Jul 2008

Hydro Acquires Spanish Aluminium Building System Provider

Hydro has formally acquired the privately owned Alumafel Group, one of the most established and well-known aluminium building systems brands in Spain.

2 Jul 2008

LayTec Award In Situ Monitoring Award to Thin GaP Film Technology

Out of the numerous excellent contributions that applied
for LayTec first In-situ Monitoring Award, an independent
committee recognized the contribution of Henning Döscher
on In-situ quantification of the surface domain structure
of thin GaP films grown on Si(100).

From Laytec - in-situ Monitoring Sensors for Thin-Film Applications 1 Jul 2008

Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Performance Breakthrough Makes Large Scale Flexible Solar Cells More Likely

In a paper published online June 29 in the journal Nature Materials, EPFL professor Michael Graetzel, Shaik Zakeeruddin and colleagues from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry at the Chinese Academy of Sciences ...

30 Jun 2008

Room Temperature Method for Producing Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles for Semiconductors

Semiconductors have become indispensable for modern technology. For example, oxide semiconductors such as zinc oxide (ZnO) are the materials of choice for transparent conducting layers for blue LEDs, liquid crystal displ...

28 Jun 2008

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