Perovskite solar panels developers

Active Surfaces is a Massachusetts-based company that designs and produces lightweight, flexible solar technology to accelerate adoption in the built environment and rapidly mitigate CO₂ emissions at global scales. 

Founded in 2022, Active Surfaces is a venture backed company that stemmed from a robust IP portfolio initially developed by leading researchers at MIT. The team holds decades of experience in solar design, slot-die coating processing, and roll-to-roll manufacturing.

With its lab in Woburn, MA, Active Surfaces has built a unique approach for scalable perovskite PV products that are cost-effective, lightweight, highly efficient and manufactured domestically, in the United States. The ultra-lightweight nature and flexibility supported by novel packaging techniques will allow for their solar services and installation on buildings that previously could not support solar panels.

Aerosolar is a spin-out from Queen Mary University of London, founded in July 2022, that aims to commercialize a new aerosol-based treatment for making perovskite solar cells more affordable and efficient.

The aerosol-assisted solvent treatment has been developed by professor of Energy Materials and Devices at QMUL Joe Briscoe and his team. It involves passing dimethylformamide solution (alone or with added methylammonium chloride) over a surface in a controlled manner before passing through a reactor containing the heated perovskite sample. This takes no more than five minutes and can also facilitate processing at a lower temperature (100 degrees C) compared to direct thermal annealing.

This approach can significantly enhance the grain growth of perovskite cells, reducing local defects and improving overall uniformity. The treated perovskite cells also exhibit remarkable performance improvements, with increased efficiency and stability across various compositions, device structures, and areas. It also makes these cells more affordable and easier to mass-manufacture.

Looking ahead, Briscoe's team is conducting further tests to assess the long-term effectiveness of this process and its scalability for commercial applications. The plan is to optimize the aerosol-assisted solvent treatment in a large-area reactor, paving the way for the development of cost-effective, lightweight, and flexible solar cells at a commercial scale.

Ascent Solar (NASDAQ: ASTI) manufactures flexible thin-film solar solutions that bring electric power to use cases where mass, shape & survivability matter.

Ascent solar films are developed using proprietary CIGS manufacturing processes. Its thin film PV panels are manufactured using CIGS (Copper-Indium-Gallium-Selenide) with patented monolithic integration. The patent-protected processes enable the company to precisely apply layers of these elements on a thin (25micron) polyamide substrate to create resilient and featherweight panels that convert sunlight into electric power.

Ascent Solar is also involved with perovskite solar developement. 

Beijing Yaoneng Technology Co., Ltd. was registered in Beijing (Haidian) Overseas Students Pioneer Park in 2017, and has obtained the Zhongguancun high-tech enterprise qualification. Its main business is in the field of new energy materials, and the research and development products are devices, processes and materials for perovskite/crystalline silicon tandem solar cells and modules. 

It is the earliest domestic enterprise dedicated to the industrialization of perovskite crystalline silicon tandem solar cells.

Beyond Silicon focuses on bifacial perovskite/silicon tandem cells. The Company aims to achieve 30% more power compared to existing silicon cells and have the cells serve as a drop-in replacement for silicon PV module manufacturing.

Beyond Silicon was founded by Arizona State University alums Zachary Holman and Zhengshan Yu.

Cosmos Innovation relies on its AI platform called Mobius for "revolutionizing the approach to solar and semiconductor process development". The company is trying to speed up the recipe development of perovskite silicon tandem technology by 10x to yield the most efficient solar cells, in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost of conventional methods.

Founded by Vijay Chandrasekhar and Joel Li, Cosmos Innovation is led, advised and supported by experts at the intersection of AI, solar, semiconductors and deep tech. The company has raised funding from investors that include Xora Innovation, an early-stage, deep-tech investment platform of Temasek, a global investment company headquartered in Singapore; Innovation Endeavors; Two Sigma Ventures; DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis; noted MIT professor Tomaso Poggio, a founder of computational neuroscience; Richard Socher, leading natural language processing (NLP) researcher; and Western Technology Investments, one of the leading venture debt funds in Silicon Valley. 

DaZheng (Jiangsu) Micro-Nano Technologies is a China-based company that focuses on manufacturing flexible perovskite solar cell modules and related intelligent equipment.

The Company promises to deliver high performance, high stability, low cost flexible solar cell products and services. 

The Company seems to be offering perovskite solar cell modules, equipment and raw perovskite materials.

In July 2022, DaZheng announced the commercialization of large, flexible PSCs.