Yole Développement (Yole) forecasts that the global LiDAR systems’ market for automotive applications will go through massive growth between 2017 and 2023. The company predicts that it will rise from US$726 million in 2017 to US$5 billion in 2023. The growth rate for this market, according to Yole will reach …
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Calyxo GmbH Applies for Insolvency and Insolvency Administrator Looks at Options
After CdTe solar module and turnkey solar system producer Calyxo GmbH applied for insolvency in Thalheim, Germany, Dr. Lucas F. Flöther with legal firm Flöther and Wissing, became company’s provisional insolvency administrator. Flöther released a statement that business operations will continue, and reported that he is currently exploring options including restructuring. The …
Imec to Coordinate “ESPResSo” Project to Make Perovskite Solar Commercially Viable
Imec, a research and innovation hub in energy, nanoelectronics, and digital technologies and partner in EnergyVille was named the coordinator of a project intended to Perovskite solar cells commercially viable. The ambitious 3-year European Union (EU) funded project ESPResSo (Efficient Structures and Processes for Reliable Perovskite Solar Modules), brings together …
MicroLink Devices Achieves 37.75 Efficiency with Solar Cell, and NASA and U.S. Navy Award Company Project Grants
MicroLink Devices, Inc. reports that its three-junction epitaxial lift-off (ELO) thin-film solar cell achieved a 37.75% power conversion efficiency, certified by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The testing was under the industry standard air mass 1.5 global (AM1.5G) simulated 1-Sun solar spectrum. In other company news, the U.S. Navy …
Magnolia to Develop Single Junction GaAs Solar for DARPA Program
Magnolia Optical Technology, Inc. based in Woburn, Massachusetts USA announced that the company is working with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under the Phase II SBIR Program for the Development of High-Performance Thin-Film Solar Cells for Portable Power Applications (Contract No D15PC00222). Magnolia develops novel optical technologies for …
Lockheed Martin Delivers Multi-Role Radar Systems to Latvian Ministry of Defense
Lockheed Martin of Bethesda, Maryland USA, recently completed a successful site acceptance test of a TPS-77 Multi-Role Radar (TPS-77 MRR). The site acceptance testing marks the on-time delivery of the first of three radar systems to the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Latvia. The TPS-77 MRR, the latest …
U.S. Marine Corp Approves Northrop Grumman G/ATOR System for Early Fielding
The Northrop Grumman Corporation of Rolling Meadows, Illinois reports that the United States Marine Corp has approved its AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) for early fielding. This approval follows the delivery of the final Lot 1 and Lot 2 Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) G/ATOR system to the Marines. According …
CST Global Awarded Grant to Develop Miniature Atomic Clocks for HELCATS Project
CST Global in Blantyre, Glasgow, UK will lead the HELCATS, (High-power, phosphorous-based, DFB lasers for cold atom systems) project. The HELCATS project will enable the development of miniaturized atomic clock systems utilizing Strontium ions. Atomic clocks are critical in calculating the position for navigation and defense applications and are also …
German Aerospace Center (DLR) Selects Ascent Solar’s CIGS Modules for Testing as Part of Solar Sail Development Project
CIGS thin-film solar developer and producer, Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. of Thorton, Colorado USA, reported that the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) selected the company for further testing to develop custom PV products for DLR’s upcoming solar array deployment system. DLR’s new GOSOLAR project intends …
U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL) Develops Process That Could Lead to Much Less Costly Night Vision Systems
Scientists at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and Stony Brook University have developed a new synthesis process for low-cost fabrication to use the semiconductor InAsSb in high-performance IR cameras. The newly developed infrared detector is for the longest wavelengths (10 micron). The best materials for the IR camera light-sensors …
on February 19, 2018 in Research, Commercialization & Govt Organizations – CS Only, Advanced Sensors, Government/Military Programs