Braggone, a company based in Oulu, Finland, announced that it has received multi-million dollar funding to commercialize its polymer materials, which it says can increase the efficiency of solar cells while allowing for greater manufacturing output.
According to a release, funding was provided by the National Technology Agency of Finland (TEKES) for worldwide commercialization of a new product line based on Braggone’s polymer research.
The company says its custom-designed compounds can dramatically reduce the reflection from glass and silicon, thus allowing greater amounts of light to be turned into electricity by photovoltaic solar cells.
The company also says it can tune the optics of solar cells by spray-, slit-, spin- or dip-coating layers of molecularly tailored material, instead of using a chemical, vapor-depositing process.
"We’ve had great success working in collaboration with chemical companies and equipment manufacturers to fine-tune and optimize the physical and application-specific characteristics of these polymers," says Dr. Yrjö Ojasaar, Braggone’s CEO.
"Due to that collaboration, and now with the additional funding from TEKES, we are on a rapid path to commercialization, as we can deliver PV manufacturing with increased performance and reduced costs all in one turnkey solution," Ojasaar adds.
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