Once more the 2016 edition of the Sunday conference gathered more than 200 people from research and industry to learn and discuss about the world of PV and the challenges ahead. For Solliance the key take-away message is the importance of aesthetics and the need...
On November 16 Toyota, Nissan, Toshiba and Hitachi visited Solliance. They shared their ambitions for the development of Environmentally Friendly Vehicles and their ongoing development of Next Generation Power Electronics. In a lively discussion the shared ambition of integration of thin-film photovoltaics in electrical vehicles...
We are proud to see Hanergy has joined the Solaroad project and started testing two new road elements based on Hanergy's Global Solar PowerFlex thin film PV (CIGS) at the Solaroad in Krommenie (Ned). Aim is to test Hanergy’s Powerflex modules as an enabling technology...
EINDHOVEN – 27 OCT 2016 - Solliance is pleased to announce that ADPV Limited has signed a Joint development contract with Solliance concerning the development of two-step electroplated CIGS modules. Research will be carried out at the Solliance pilot production facilities on the High Tech...
photo: Bart van Overbeeke Fotografie On October 25th the first version of the Solar Design Challenge took place as part of the Dutch Design Week. The top three designs of this year’s competition were presented in the 'Mind the Step' theatre. The Solar Design Challenge is organized by...
This challenge is aimed at designers with good ideas about the functional integration of solar cells in all kind of final products. These products can for example be components for the buildings and infrastructure of the future, for transport means and other wireless devices that...
Leuven (Belgium) — September 13, 2016 — Imec, Europe’s top nanoelectronics research center and Hasselt University, today announce that one of their scientists has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant. The grantee is Bart Vermang, researcher at IMOMEC, imec’s associated lab at the Hasselt University....
Wednesday June 15th, during the International Conference on Coatings on Glass and Plastics, the Hans Pulker Award for the best paper has been granted to the ALD team of Solliance and Holst Centre. The paper Developments in Plasma Enhanced Spatial ALD for High Throughput Applications...
To our great sorrow and bewilderment, we received the news that on Tuesday afternoon Hein Willems passed away at the age of 63. With great effort and dedication, Hein has been one of the initiators and the first director of Solliance. Hein was an inspired leader,...
Leuven – Nanoelectronics research center imec, partner in Solliance, presented today the first-ever semi-transparent perovskite PV-module, achieving power conversion efficiencies up to 12%. The technology enables for semi-transparent PV-windows which are a key towards Zero-Energy Buildings. Moreover, combining these semitransparent perovskite modules with Si solar...