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Spire gets go ahead for GaAs expansion
SPIRE CORPORATION has announced the project and assure that progress meets efficiency were achieved during Phase I.
that its wholly owned subsidiary, Spire contract objectives. These objectives
Semiconductor, LLC, has successfully include estimates of key performance “We are very happy to be given the go
completed Phase I of its High Efficiency parameters of competitive Levelized Cost of ahead with our program,” said Roger G.
Concentrator Solar Cell program with the Energy; annual manufacturing capacity Little, Chairman and CEO of Spire
Department of Energy’s National Renewable potential; direct manufacturing cost; and cell Corporation. “It validates our efforts toward
Energy Laboratory (NREL) and has been Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF). PV cell developing a proprietary GaAs concentrator
notified the NREL will authorized Phase II of performances of greater than 39% solar cell that exceeds anything available.”
the program. Under the 18-month, $3.7
million cost share subcontract, Spire
Semiconductor is developing technology to
cost-effectively manufacture 42% efficient,
500 sun, concentrator solar cells for
concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) systems.
Spire Semiconductor passed through the
NREL Stage Gate Review, a go/no go
decision point to validate the progression of
Highest power
output for 638 nm
red LD
GALLIUM NITRIDE
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Mitsubishi announced the launch of the
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From research to production
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Flexibility in the nitrogen sources
systems that need a red light source with
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high brightness. The semiconductor industry
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could be interested in this development as
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diodes mainly used as the light source.
LDs deliver higher output power with less
consumption than LEDs, meaning the
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