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Improved Nanophotonic Design Software For Making LEDs, OLEDs and Thin Film Solar Cells

Lumerical Solutions, a provider of nanophotonic design software, today announced the immediate availability of FDTD Solutions Release 6.5.

13 Aug 2009

Contract Awarded to Make Plastics for Use In Organic Solar Cells

The FlexTech Alliance, focused on developing the electronic display and the flexible, printed electronics industry supply chain, today announced the award of a $450,000 contract to Solarmer Energy, Inc. to design and synthesize high efficiency donor polymer materials

for use in Organic Photovoltaics (OPVs).

12 Aug 2009

Researchers Hope to Improve Solar Cell Efficiency With Nanotechnology

Growing - and precisely aligning - microscopic, spear-shaped zinc oxide crystals on a surface of single-crystal silicon, researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology may have developed a method to make more efficient solar cells

11 Aug 2009

Former Contaminated Shipyard to be Green Technology Center

Hunters Point Shipyard on California's San Francisco Bay has gone through several rebirths in its more than 100 years of existence. When completed in 2012, the complex will house a climate change think tank called the "UN Global Compact Sustainability Center" which will work to find green solutions to the environmental challenges facing the world, a conference center and UN offices

10 Aug 2009

NASA Forms Agreement to Make Alternative Energy and Nanotechnology Breakthroughs Available for Commercial Use

An agreement has been formed between MSGI and NASA to commercialize various revolutionary technologies developed by NASA in the fields of nanotechnology and alternative energy

10 Aug 2009

Solar Power and Photovoltaics Market Analysis in New Reports

DisplaySearch, the worldwide leader in display market research, today announced that it will roll out a new suite of reports to cover the rapidly growing solar and photovoltaics markets

10 Aug 2009

High School Teachers Go Back to University to Learn About Solar Cells

Seven high school teachers have enrolled in a course in solar cells, offered as part of MSU's Master of Science in Science Education program. The teachers spent a week at MSU, attending lectures and performing experiments in MSU's Montana Microfabrication Facility

10 Aug 2009

More Funding for Energy Frontier Research Centers

In a major effort to accelerate the scientific breakthroughs needed to build a new 21st-century energy economy, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced the delivery of $377 million in funding for 46 new multi-million-dollar Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRCs) located at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations, and private firms across the nation

9 Aug 2009

Department of Energy Throws Open Doors of Argonne National Laboratory for Open Day

U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory will open its gates to the community on Saturday, August 29, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for a day of discovery and fun for the whole family

9 Aug 2009