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Recently unveiled at the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) conference in Las Vegas, Silent Falcon represents the synergy of several new technologies, including ASTI’s flexible photovoltaic modules, to provide a near silent, rapidly deployed platform that has multiple military and civilian applications. With three wing configurations available for different mission profiles, each Silent Falcon system could represent up to 30 modules.
John W. Brown, CEO, Silent Falcon UAS Technologies comments, “We believe that today there is a large and growing global military and public safety agency market for small or tactical unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). In these markets alone, sales exceeding several hundred units per year are possible. As their use in these markets proves their utility and functionality, and as the FAA rules for domestic commercial, civilian use become clearer, we believe the market size and number of annual units sold could increase substantially.”
Ascent Solar’s President and CEO, Victor Lee, adds, “Our collaboration on Silent Falcon represents a key strength of our product, namely that its lightweight and flexible nature can address multiple markets, from consumer electronics to building integrated PV, and that our manufacturing process is sufficiently agile to support them simultaneously. We see this emerging electric drone market expanding rapidly, with applications ranging from military to disaster relief with rapid deployment and recovery with little risk to human life.”
Opel closes final tranche in financing
The firm, will through its subsidiary Odis, use the funds to further develop its III-V compound semiconductor solar cell technology
Opel Technologies Inc. has successfully completed the final tranche of its previously announced $3,000,000 financing through IBK Capital Corp. as agent.
The private placement offering consisted of 13,043,479 Units at a price of $0.23 per Unit. Each unit consists of one common share and one common share purchase warrant. One full warrant
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allows the holder to acquire one common share of Opel for a period of three years at an exercise price of $0.35 per share. The securities issued pursuant to the private placement will be subject to a hold period which expires four months and one day following closing.
The final tranche amounted to the entire remaining $1,442,580 available under the offering. A cash commission equal to 7 percent of the funds raised and 10 percent of the units sold in the form of broker warrants were paid to the agent. Each broker warrant allows the holder to acquire one common share of Opel at a price of $0.23 for 48 months.
Opel, through its subsidiary Odis, is now concentrating on the development of III-V compound semiconductor solar cell technology
Simulating the sun for solar research
A new laser-based solar simulator produces a spectral distribution almost identical to sunlight at wavelengths from 450 to 1750 nm. It can be used to characterise solar cells including III-V multi-junction based modules
PML researchers have devised a novel source of portable sunlight that may fill an urgent need in renewable energy research.
They have fabricated light sources that generate a near-perfect solar spectrum to be used in testing the performance and efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) materials.
The team’s laser-based solar simulator produces a spectral distribution almost identical to sunlight at wavelengths from 450 to 1750 nm, and does so in a readily-focused beam that can be easily adapted to examine the latest generation of nanoscale, multi- cell, and multi-layer PV configurations. Recently the system was tested head-to-head against the best conventional sources with very promising results.
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