Solar is the single most expensive hardware component in a small satellite. Alta Devices has developed proprietary equipment to mass produce its thin-film gallium arsenide (GaAs). This equipment is being scaled up for production at much higher volumes and lower cost than other space solar manufactu...
Alta Devices of Sunnyvale, CA, USA (a subsidiary of Hanergy Thin Film Power Group Ltd of Beijing, China since 2014) in November set a new solar energy conversion efficiency record for gallium arsenide (GaAs) single-junction solar cells (for the seventh consecutive time since 2010), certified ...
Alta Devices, first of all, has set a solar efficiency record for its single junction solar cell. Actually, this is the seventh time the company achieved such a distinction. Asoptics.orgsaid, this was "the latest in a long series of cell or modulerecordsset by the Californian company." T...
layer. Locating all the contacts on the back side of the PV device avoids solar shadows caused by front side contacts, typically found in conventional solar cells. Therefore, PV devices described herein with back side contacts may allow for increased efficiency when compared to conventional solar ...
China’s Hanergy acquires US-based CIGS PV firm Global Solar Energy China’s Hanergy completes acquisition of Silicon Valley CIGS PV firm MiaSolé Hanergy to acquire Q.CELLS' CIGS PV subsidiary Solibro Tags:Alta DevicesGaAs PVHanergy Visit:www.hanergy.com ...