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National Instruments Responds to Solar Market Needs |
| In order to build sustainable competitive advantage in a rapidly evolving marketplace, companies should be continuously sensing, seeking and seizing new ways to better differentiate, deliver and monetize their products and services. This is exactly what National Instruments has d... |
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Rethinking Solar Power System Design |
| Solar energy is at an inflection point, as it makes the transition from niche to mainstream. A cascade of new solar technologies is reaching the market, bringing the promise of improved efficiency and better ROI. But to get the most out of these new technologies, we must rethink ... |
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Why Bigger Multicrystalline Ingots May Not Mean Better? |
| Directional solidification furnace manufacturers are developing next-generation products to improve performance and efficiency of the ingot growth process. One feature that furnace manufacturers are investigaing involves the ability to grow larger size ingots. There is a tendency... |
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How to Make BIPV Commonplace? |
| Combining solar technology with conventional building surfaces is one ideal way that has been around a while to make renewable energy more common and cost effective. |
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BIPV as Marketing Strategy |
| The photovoltaics industry will need to remake itself in the post-recession era. The days of hyper-growth are gone for now and at NanoMarkets, we believe that the industry will increasingly face a new set of challenges that two years ago would have been glossed over as ‘nothing m... |
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Next Generation Solar Panels |
| Plastic solar panels are part of the next generation of solar technology. Solarmer Energy, Inc. is working hard to develop flexible, transparent, lightweight, plastic solar panels, which will cost only a fraction of what traditional solar panels cost. These solar panels will crea... |
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Finding Life after Silicon |
| Silicon was used as a semiconductor for the earliest of solar devices--and is still in use in many solar projects--but the time‘s they are a-changing and silicon solar cells are starting to fall out of favor. |
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Precision Measurement and Quality in Solar Glass Processes |
| The worldwide push for renewable resources presents a number of challenges for the glass industry. Glass is a major component of solar panels which have been experiencing double digit growth despite the recession. Most glass manufactured today is clear or with some degree of tint... |
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