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China : NJIT formalizes pact with CHINESE partners [TendersInfo (India)]
[March 01, 2014]

China : NJIT formalizes pact with CHINESE partners [TendersInfo (India)]


(TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) NJIT has officialized a pact with Chinese partners that will take forward the university's research on thin-film solar cells, an alternative energy technology with the prospect to make buildings and other infrastructure significantly more energy-efficient.



Over $650,000 from the Shanghai-based China National Building Materials Company (CNBM), a world leading producer of gypsum, cement, and fibre glass will enable NJIT to l refurbish its solar cell research laboratory and build prototype equipment that will allow manufacturers to make thin-film cells more cost efficiently.

Directed by physics Ken Chin, the institute's CNBM New Energy Materials Research Centre, is concentrating on thin-film cells based on CIGS and CdTe, which are both potentially affordable options to silicon, the industry standard, as they make use of raw materials more sparingly, take less net energy for production, and take less space on buildings.


Absorbing sunlight and converting it to electricity, compounds like CdTe and silicon work as the active semiconductor in a solar cell.

Research professor and the CNBM Centre's general manager, Alan Delahoy, said : 'Cadmium telluride is a promising photovoltaic material, but to date, with the exception of a single company, it has been difficult to produce and deploy on a manufacturing scale. In terms of the market, the hurdle is making it competitive with crystalline silicon modules. But we see no reason why we can t meet key efficiency targets by solving some basic scientific questions - and that s what we aim to do.' (c) 2014 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info, an Albawaba.com company

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