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 | July 6th, 2011 Nanotechnology Enables Solar Power Advances in 2010 & 2011 Bo Varga Managing Director, Silicon Valley Nano Ventures This July, 2011 nano + solar column focuses on emerging & advanced solar technologies including the emerging global R&D role of KAUST in Saudi Arabia, as well as several recent announcements in advanced quantum dot & quantum well technologies & the printing of CIGS type solar cells. My focus is on the business value of technology including manufacturing and application breakthroughs & not on deep technology. Read the Whole Article |
| June 22nd, 2009 New Nano Solar Developments in 2009 Bo Varga Managing Director, Silicon Valley Nano Ventures Nanotechnology can reduce costs, increase performance, and lower the environmental impacts of solar PV and CSP. Every month I read about nanotechnology impacts on solar photovoltaics and talk with start up / early stage companies and I am amazed and impressed by the many different and interesting research projects that report results. And by many new commercialization efforts, although I am often under NDA and cannot discuss those. This column reports on a few developments over the last year with a particular focus on the increasing interest in nanocrystalline-based solar cells and on the use of Schottky barrier/junction approaches to increase solar cell efficiency. As well as on the use of Schottky junctions to replace p:n type solar cells with "perfect diode" based solar cells. Read the Whole Article |
| May 9th, 2008 Commercialization of Nano + Solar Photovoltaic Technologies Bo Varga Managing Director, Silicon Valley Nano Ventures This column focuses on issues of interest to entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers in the nano + solar space; (1) listing of some of upcoming conferences relevant to nano + solar (2) overview of commercial considerations for any nano + solar technology (3) overview of some key technologies currently in early stages of commercialization. In my early July column I will review all the new nanotechnologies and companies related to solar that are announced in the year ending June 30, 2008 - and there are many. Read the Whole Article |
| August 19th, 2007 Nanotechnology & Solar Power News: July 2007 Bo Varga Managing Director, Silicon Valley Nano Ventures My July focus is on (1) initial Solar America Initiative Awards under the Incubator Grant program; (2) the announcement by First Solar of more than billion dollars in firm orders for CdTe thin film solar modules as well as a new 120MW plant to be built in Malaysia; (3)the announcement of a 1 GigaWatt Solar City by Sharp (and rumors of other 1 Gigawatt Manufacturing complexes being planned); (4) the upcoming Solar Power 2007 conference running from September 24 - 27 in Long Beach, CA, (5) the release by Deutsche Bank of the best report on photovoltaics released to date; and (6) an important symposium in Milan, Italy on Market Dynamics in the 8 largest global markets, staged by Solar Plaza. Read the Whole Article |
| July 18th, 2007 Nanotechnology & Solar Power News: June 2007 Bo Varga Managing Director, Silicon Valley Nano Ventures This column focuses on nano and clean technology conferences, commercialization of nanotechnology in solar applications, solar companies, funding, solar power policy issues, and other areas of interest to the solar power community. All quotations and sources are referenced and all opinions are those opinions of the columnist and not of Nanotechnology Now. Read the Whole Article |
| March 14th, 2007 Nano Solar News: Global Warming & 2015 Cost Trends Bo Varga Managing Director, Silicon Valley Nano Ventures The fundamental driver for solar PV & solar thermal is the efficiency & cost of conversion of sunlight to electricity or to heat. The competition is either fossil fuels or nuclear energy. Nuclear is high risk due to terrorism, waste products, "not in my backyard". Fossil fuels depend on the "carbon subsidy" - current prices do not including payment for global warming & the destruction of the biosphere. Solar growth at 20% per year for 50 years can replace fossil fuels & nuclear and remove the causes of global warming. Read the Whole Article |
| February 13th, 2007 Nano Solar News: 2006 & January Bo Varga Managing Director, Silicon Valley Nano Ventures The focus for this column is recent nano solar news as well as a review of current and projected capture efficiency of solar cells as well as current and projected manufactured cost & wholesale prices of solar modules. Read the Whole Article |
| August 31st, 2006 Nanotechnology Impact on Solar Power Bo Varga Managing Director, Silicon Valley Nano Ventures Solar Markets, Nano & PV Technologies Overview including c-silicon, a-silicon, CIGS, CdTe, GaAs, polymer/DSSC, tandem, and nano-materials based PV. Read the Whole Article |
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