Thin film R&D

Imec and Solliance say that Imec will be a full partner of Solliance and will integrate its thin film PV R&D efforts in Solliance. With imec as a partner, Solliance aims to be an R&D cluster bringing thin film solar energy technology to excellence.

Solliance works in close cooperation with industry, both to fulfil short-term needs of industry and to convey promising programs of mid- and long-term research.

It focuses on three main thin film technologies: thin film Si, alternatives for CIGS and organic photovoltaics. For these principal themes, Solliance will collaborate with the industry at its facilities in Eindhoven as well as at Imec’s facilities in Leuven, providing direct answers to the industry’s most pressing questions.

Solliance also concentrates on generic technologies that will be vital to any thin film PV industry: testing, characterisation and monitoring, laser technologies, light management by mechanical texturisation, transparent conductive layers, monolithic interconnection, new OPV device development, thin film deposition techniques, sheet-to-sheet processing, roll-to-roll processing, and inline monitoring.