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Thursday 2 June 2011
Intersolar Europe: Companies to show new innovations in solar products
Taiwan-based solar firm DelSolar plans to exhibit copper-zinc-tin-sulfide (CZTS) thin-film solar cells and frameless modules at Intersolar Europe in Germany. Taiwan-based module firm...
Tuesday 17 May 2011
Taiwan to cooperate with China to secure steady supply of rare earth materials
Due to restrictions on the production and export of rare earth materials, the price of the elements has been reaching new levels. The price of praseodymium oxide grew from CNY80,000...
Thursday 5 May 2011
Growing demand for a-Si thin-film PV modules in Southeast Asia, but the pressure to cut quotes is high
Demand for a-Si thin-film PV modules is growing significantly in the Southeast Asia region including the Philippines, Malaysia and Thailand, but potential clients are asking for low...
Tuesday 26 April 2011
TSMC confident of making CIGS PV modules comparable with solar cells, says chairman
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is technologically capable of producing CIGS (copper-indium-gallium-selenide) thin-film PV (photovoltaic) modules with energy conversion...
Monday 21 March 2011
NexPower receives 30MWp thin-film module orders from India
Thin-film solar company NexPower, a subsidiary of United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC), announced that it has received 30MWp in module orders from an India client for applications...
Thursday 17 March 2011
Viking Tech shares up 34% on first-day OTC trading
Taiwan-based Viking Tech, which specializes in the design and manufacture of chip resistors, saw its share price soar 33.75% on its first day of trading on Taiwan's over-the-counter...
Friday 11 March 2011
Tong Hsing, Viking Tech to expand LED heat sink substrate capacities
Taiwan-based LED heat sink substrate makers Tong Hsing Electronic Industries and Viking Tech both plan to ramp up their capacities to accommodate rising demand coming from the LED...
Friday 11 March 2011
Viking projects over 40% growth in 2011 revenues
Taiwan-based Viking Tech, which specializes in the design and manufacture of chip resistors, has forecast that its revenues for 2011 will climb 40-50%. Automotive thin-film resistors...
Tuesday 1 March 2011
Viking Tech to expand thin-film resistor capacity 20-30% in 2011
Taiwan-based Viking Tech, which specializes in the design and manufacture of chip resistors, plans to expand capacity for thin-film resistors by 20-30% in 2011 to meet demand from...
Tuesday 1 March 2011
ITO replacement market booming, says Information Network
While indium tin oxide (ITO) is widely used as the material for transparent electrodes in an assorted range of electronic devices including thin film photovoltaics, touch-screen displays,...
Thursday 17 February 2011
Apple secures 60% of global touch panel capacity, causing tight supply
In order to achieve its internal goal of shipping 40 million iPad products in 2011, Apple has occupied close to 60% of the global touch panel capacity causing tight supply among Apple's...
Wednesday 5 January 2011
Equipment maker Kenmec expects 2011 revenues to reach NT$7 billion
Automation equipment maker Kenmec Mechanical Engineering expects 2011 revenues to challenge NT$7 billion (US$240.45 million) thanks to aggressive capacity expansion by TFT LCD panel...
Tuesday 21 December 2010
Prices for a-Si PV modules to fall into 2011
Quotes for amorphous silicon (a-Si) thin-film PV modules are likely to fall below EUR1/W (US$1.32) sometime in 2011 versus EUR1.1-1.2/W in the fourth quarter of 2010, according to...
Thursday 2 December 2010
Sun Well to set up 130MWp micro-Si thin-film PV module capacity in 2011
Sun Well Solar, a Taiwan-based maker of a-Si thin-film PV modules, will establish microcrystalline silicon (micro-Si) thin-film PV module production lines in 2011, with an initial...
Wednesday 27 October 2010
Thin-film solar system rate of return exceeds poly-Si for the first time in Germany
With Germany's feed-in-tariff (FIT) slash in the third quarter of 2010, and strong demand from other solar markets buoying upstream prices, the internal rate of return (IRR) of installing...