Last week, we spoke with Doug Carpenter and Kevin Maloney of QuantumSphere Inc. (QSI), a nanomaterials developer pursuing energy storage, desalination, biofuels, and other clean energy applications. Kevin told us that QSI has developed copper indium gallium (CIG) nanoparticles of controlled stoichio...
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News Commentary | January 26, 2022
A joint venture involving the Shanghai Electric Company has decided to abandon a copper‑indium‑gallium‑selenide (CIGS) solar module production project, which could potentially see the joint venture lose up to CNY 1.42 billion in the investment. The project, which aimed to commercialize CIGS ... Not part of subscription
News Commentary | April 19, 2022
SunPower will work with First Solar to launch a tandem photovoltaic (PV) module over the next 18 to 24 months that will combine SunPower's crystalline Silicon (C‑Si) technology and First Solar's CdTe thin‑film technology. The combination of different PV technologies to create tandem solar cells will... Not part of subscription
News Commentary | May 16, 2022
The copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin‑film solar cell developed at the university eliminated the use of cadmium sulfide buffer layers from the solar cell. This new approach replaces cadmium sulfide with an oxidized layer of CIGS that is formed using an air‑annealing process. Researchers ... Not part of subscription