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utilising the pilot production line and the team will achieve these goals in under four months.

The team has been constructing a DSC 20 m2 roof

array that will be demonstrated and monitored at the Sustainable Building Envelope Centre (SBEC) test bed facility on the Shotton site.

This demonstrates the capability of the processes, developed during the industrial development phase, to manufacture a module that can be integrated and installed as an operational array. This has also re- quired the accelerated development of the product finishing steps.

In parallel, the team has more than doubled the po- wer output while eliminating costly silver conductors. The major drive now is to bring forward by more than one year the Technology Road Map delivery of high performance, matched by lower cost materials that will enable grid parity to be achieved with DSC arrays integrated into steel roofing. This would make the Tata/Dyesol products independent of the need for Feed-in Tariffs.

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nergy Micro has won the Leading Product Award for its ARM®

Cortex-M3™ based Tiny Gecko

EFM32 low power microcontroller in the Embed- ded Systems category of the EDN China Innovation Awards 2011.

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igaphoton Inc., a major lithography light source manufacturer, has shipped its 1,000th excimer

laser for semiconductor photolithography. http://www.gigaphoton.com

RL Laboratories, LLC, has developed the world’s lightest material with a density of 0.9 mg/cc,

approximately one hundred times lighter than Styro- foam™. The results of their research – a collaborative effort between HRL, The California Institute of Technology and the University of California, Irvine – are published in the November 18 issue of Science.

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Image: Using an innovative fabrication process deve- loped at HRL, researchers created a “micro-lattice” structure of interconnected hollow tubes with a wall thickness of 100nm, 1,000 times thinner than a human hair. © Dan Little / HRL Laboratories, LLC