Solar Cell
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Solar uptake for mobile devices 'limited'
News Photovoltaic cells will not replace batteries in mobile computing devices for now, as performance and price issues continue to hamper adoption, say analysts.
Tags: Green IT, Development/design, Battery, Photovoltaics, Mobile Device, Sharp Corp., Gartner Inc., solar cell, performance, mobile computing
Nanotech lighting the way
News Particles that capture infrared light could allow everyday objects to tap into an under-exploited source of energy
Tags: Nanotechnology
Chipmakers' silicon scraps feed solar industry's hunger
News Selling unusable silicon wafers to solar cell makers is good for the environment, and companies like TI make money at it too.
Tags: Components
Transparent plastic solar cells fitted into windows
News Konarka teams up with window maker Arch to put its transparent solar cells between panes of glass for power-generating windows.
Tags: Green IT, Clean Technology, Photovoltaics, Cell, Electronics, solar cell, Massachusetts, CEO, window, agreement
IBM uses liquid metal to boost solar-cell efficiency
News The company's tech increases the power of the sun's rays by a factor of 10, using liquid metal to transfer the resulting heat from solar cells.
Tags: Green IT, Innovation, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Photovoltaics, Cell, Semiconductor, solar cell, researcher, power generation
Intel spins off solar cell maker SpectraWatt
News In a big commitment to clean tech, Intel-funded SpectraWatt will manufacture solar cells for panel makers starting in the middle of next year.
Tags: Processors, Green IT, Clean Technology, Hewlett-Packard Co., Intel Corp., solar cell, intellectual property, processor, energy efficiency, network
IBM, Harvard tap compute cloud for solar research
News A grid-computing project led by Harvard University seeks to identify which organic materials would perform best as electricity-generating solar cells.
Tags: Market research, Green IT, Components, IBM Corp., Computing, Existing World Community Grid Project, nonprofit organization, solar cell, Computer, World Community Grid
Low-cost solar concentrator unwrapped
News A California startup looks to cut the cost of solar power for industrial customers with a concentrator that relies on more sheet metal and less silicon.
Tags: Green IT, Department Of Energy, Photovoltaics, Cell, Technology Review, solar cell, solar panel, sustainable development, Silicon, Mountain View
IBM atomic probe gets newly sensitive touch
News Vendor's atomic force microscope can distinguish charged gold atoms from neutral ones. Big Blue hopes that will help with nanocomputing and solar energy research.
Tags: Nanotechnology, IBM Corp., Nanotechnology, Electronics, Atom, solar cell, researcher, Holy Grail, Zurich
Green tech year in preview
News The outlook for clean tech in 2009 is solid, with money projected to go to start-ups. But the falling price of oil and the financial crisis have dampened the speed of technology innovation.
Tags: Green IT, Politics, Clean Technology, Carbon Emission, Financial Crisis, electric car, solar cell, financing, energy efficiency, recession
Intel expands solar focus with Voltaix investment
News The company's latest clean-tech investment is its third in two months for companies specializing in photovoltaic solar materials.
Tags: Investments, Green IT, Venture capital, Processors, Intel Corp., Integrated Circuit, Photovoltaics, Investment, Manufacturing, solar cell
IBM bets on CIGS with solar-cell deal
News Big Blue and Japanese semiconductor equipment manufacturer Tokyo Ohka Kogyo plan to develop technology that can hit US$1 per watt in two or three years.
Tags: Green IT, Hardware, Processors, Hewlett-Packard Co., IBM Corp., Cell, Renewable Energy, solar cell, intellectual property, chemicals
Intel seeds five energy startups with US$10M
News Chip giant's venture arm boosts its presence in smart-grid technologies and low-power computing through investments.
Tags: Green IT, Investments, Intel Corp., Security, C, Intel Xeon, General Electric Co., Investment, energy efficiency, high-performance computing
Andy Grove urges Intel to build car batteries
News Former Intel CEO--now a plug-in vehicle advocate--says the chip giant should make electric car batteries to diversify and jump-start the alternative-energy field.
Tags: Green IT, Battery, Intel Corp., Conference, Plug-in, Manufacturing, Chip, electric car, car battery, U.S. company
Microsoft crunches numbers on energy, carbon
News Part of an environmental sustainability push, Microsoft updates is Dynamics packaged applications for midsize companies to tally energy use and to calculate greenhouse gas emissions.
Tags: Green IT, Software, Microsoft Corp., Energy, Carbon Emission, Renewable Energy, electricity grid, Dynamics AX Application, Environment, energy efficiency
