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Technology 2023-08-25T17:19:52+00:00

Our Process

In the solar industry, the power is in the process. Thin Film manufacturing costs is the key barrier preventing Thin Film technologies from gaining more market share, as Thin Film outperforms competing PV solutions. Solactron, having developed groundbreaking solutions to the cost and scalability challenges for manufacturing Thin Film modules, is positioned to deliver these improvements and be an industry leader.

Advantages of our process:

  • Easily scalable, controllable with high manufacturing throughput and yield
  • Innovative improvements on process and equipment design (protected by several issued and pending patents)
  • Uniform materials composition
  • High materials utilization
  • short process time (up to 90% reduction)
  • No use of toxic gasses
  • These advantages position Solactron to offer a superior solution at a significantly lower cost.

The Superiority of Our Thin Film 2.0

Our Thin Film 2.0 material system is one of the best performing solar solutions.

  • Tunable compound chemistry allows for highest efficiency runway (>34%) by utilizing > 95% of the solar spectrum
  • Our differentiated Thin Film 2.0 technology readily integrates our Thin Film 2.0 single-junction platform with thin film-thin film tandem solar cell architectures for > 34% efficiencies (including Chalcopyrites and Perovskites Tandems), which uniquely positions our company to disrupt the solar PV market.

Thin-film solar PV is currently leading the solar PV market in terms of financial performance. However, CdTe is intrinsically challenged by Cadmium toxicity, a major barrier for CdTe to be selected as a technology of choice.

Solactron’s differentiated Thin Film 2.0 solves the cost problem and the toxicity problem, building on an already powerful material system.  

Key Advantages of Solactron’s Thin Film 2.0 Technology:

  • Lower cost of production than competing technologies
  • Much thinner (by a factor of 100-150x). This makes our Thin Film 2.0 much more versatile, applicable in ways not possible for c-Si modules
  • Much less material required in manufacturing
  • Superior efficiency & levels of performance overall
  • Superior performance in hot environments (c-Si performance decreases in hot climates by thermal degradation)
  • Superior performance in low-light conditions
  • Superior design: aesthetically pleasing black modules by using monolithic integration
  • No use of toxic material

Amongst solar technologies, Thin Film Solar PV is leading the market in terms of financial performance. Our differentiated Thin Film 2.0 Solar PV technology positions Solactron to emerge as a leader in the solar PV market, with a better bottom line: high performance and low cost.

A better module at the least cost

By completely reinventing how to produce Thin Film solar cells, Solactron is positioned to make significant production gains in terms of time, materials, and cost while simultaneously boosting efficiency and avoiding toxic material.

While Solactron’s production process is innovative, the end result – Thin Film solar modules on glass – is a proven and bankable product. Solactron’s Thin Film 2.0 technology is positioned to be an industry leader.