Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC)

Tokyo, May 25, 2008
Reporting by Kiyoshi Takenaka; Editing by Tomasz Janowski
Source: Reuters.com
http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUST15201920080525

By: iStockAnalyst, London, June 09, 2008
http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewarticle+articleid_2271690

G24 Innovations, the first company to commercially manufacture next generation Dye-Sensitized Thin Film solar cells, Monday said Morgan Stanley Principal Investments has invested $20 million in the company. The investment comes in the form of newly issued ordinary shares and gives MSPI a minority stake in the company and the right to appoint a director to the board.

Source: ScienceDaily, Apr. 10, 2008
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080410140451.htm

A new approach is able to create a dramatic improvement in cheap solar cells now being developed in laboratories. By using a popcorn-ball design -- tiny kernels clumped into much larger porous spheres -- researchers at the University of Washington are able to manipulate light and more than double the efficiency of converting solar energy to electricity. The findings were presented in New Orleans at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society April 10.

California based firm "Solideas.com" has developed a solar (photovoltaic, or PV) cell kit, using natural dyes extracted from berries. This solar cell kit provides an interdisciplinary context for students learning the basic principles of biological extraction, chemistry, physics, environmental science and electron transfer.

These solar cell kits are based on work on nanocrystalline dye-sensitized solar cells that use an organic dye to absorb incoming light to produce excited electrons.

for details see

http://www.solideas.com/solrcell/cellkit.html

Photovoltaic Solar Cells, Research and Manufacturing

Automation Products and Handling Equipment for the Photovoltaic Industry
(AMB) Bernhard Brain GmbH & Co KG

Manufacture Photovoltaic Solar Cells & Modules, Charge Controllers, Inverters, Stand Alone & Grid Connection, Lighting
Aplicaciones Técnicas de la Energía, SL (ATERSA), Spain
Mono-Crystalline Silicon Ingots and Wafers of P-Type and N-Type'
ASi Industries GmbH, Germany

Silicon Ingots, Photovoltaic Wafers, High Efficiency Mono/Polycrystalline Cells,
PV Modules, Annual Capacity >50MW'

by Aled Blake, Western Mail, Dec 18 2007
Source: ICWales
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/business-in-wales/business-news/
2007/12/18/super-thin-solar-film-91466-20262567/

A COMPANY which manufactures next-generation solar technology has signed a research and development agreement with Cardiff University. Cardiff-based G24i has reached a deal with the university’s school of engineering that will allow it to access the facilities. G24i’s Dye Sensitised Thin Film combines innovative material science and nanotechnology to generate renewable power in a process similar to photosynthesis.

Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF)
held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 13-19.2007

Judged on their creative ability, scientific thought, as well as their thoroughness, skill and clarity, students at Intel ISEF compete in 14 scientific categories with the majority of projects entered in the environmental sciences medicine and health categories. More than 1,500 students representing more than 51 countries compete at Intel ISEF, making it the world's largest pre-university science and engineering fair.

http://www.sciserv.org/isef/

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