| Research into High-thermal-conductivity Substrates for GaN Electronics Gets UK Funding April 29, 2013...Researchers from the University of Bath and the University of Bristol will
receive funding totaling more than £823,800 from UK’s Engineering and
Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) over the next three years years. The
project is to develop highly thermally conductive substrates for GaN
electronics.
A £430,597 grant (EPSRC reference EP/K024337/1) was awarded to the
University of Bath’s Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering
with principal investigator... U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium and NREL Collaborate to Develop Thin Film PV Cells and ModulesMarch 18, 2013...The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Photovoltaic
Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC) have agreed to improve manufacturing of solar
cells, including thin film, advanced silicon, and future materials. These
national partnerships are modeled after the research from not-for-profit
consortium, Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology (SEMATECH) and the College
of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE).
NREL’s pioneering work in renewable energy and photovoltaic research
includes establishing processes, measurement and characterization... Emcore Awarded DOD ContractFebruary 18, 2013...Emcore Corp. of Albuquerque, New Mexico USA, was awarded a
$7,364,902 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Advanced
Multi-Junction Space Cell Producibility Program. The project
is to be conducted in at the company's Albuquerque facility.
Work is expected to be completed by April 13, 2018. The
company was contracted through the U.S.Department of Defense, and
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. The goal of the project is to
improve the... GraphenSiC AB Receives €60,000 in Business Support from Swedish Energy AgencyJanuary 28, 2013...The Swedish Energy Agency granted Linköping University spin-off
GraphenSiC AB about €60,000 for business development. The company
says the funding will give it increased opportunities for
international development of its epitaxial graphene on silicon
carbide (SiC) technology. Applications for the technology range from
energy related electronics to various approaches of biosensors.
In 2012 Graphensic was selected as one of the 33 hottest technology
start‐up companies in Sweden.... HexaTech Awarded ARPA-E Contract For Aluminum Nitride (AlN) High Voltage Power ElectronicsDecember 17, 2012...HexaTech, Inc. of Morrisville, North Carolina USA, has received a $2.2 M award from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to develop new aluminum nitride (AlN)-based power semiconductor technology for the modernization the electrical power grid. HexaTech's AlN technology leverages very low dislocation density single crystal AlN substrates. The company plans to use... Semprius to Supply High Concentration Photovoltaic Modules to Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne for Department of DefenseDecember 3, 2012...Semprius of Durham, North Carolina USA will be supplying its high concentration photovoltaic (HCPV) modules to Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne for the Department of Defense. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne (PWR) received a $2.3 million award from the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP) office of the U.S. Department of Defense for the project which will supply the HCPV technology for... Stion Receives $2 Million DOE Award to Scale Up Production of Tandem Junction CellsNovember 26, 2012...Stion, a manufacturer of copper indium gallium selenium and sulfur (CIGS) solar modules baed in San Jose, California USA, announced a $2 million award from the US Department of Energy’s SunShot Initiative.The initiative is to continue pilot production and scale-up of its ultra high-efficiency thin film modules based on proprietary tandem junction technology. The tandem junction technology uses the... Ascent Solar Technologies to Get SBIR Phase 2 Award From U.S. Air Force for Advanced Flexible Lightweight PhotovoltaicsNovember 12, 2012...Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc. based in Thornton, Colorado USA, was selected for an Air Force Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase 2 award to demonstrate a next-generation photovoltaic product. The product builds upon the company's copper-indium-gallium-diselenide (CIGS) technology. The company hopes to produce photovoltaics that can operate efficiently at higher temperatures. The SBIR Phase 2 award, which is subject...
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... IQE of Cardiff, UK announced the launch of gallium nitride based, high electron mobility transistor (GaN HEMT) epitaxial wafers on 150mm diameter semi-insulating silicon carbide (SiC) substrates. The SiC substrates are supplied by the WBG Materials subsidiary of II-VI Inc., a provider of optoelectronic components. IQE says that GaN power amplifiers offer superior power capability, efficiency, bandwidth and linearity... 
