AkzoNobel Announces Solar Cell Technology Collaboration
AkzoNobel recently announced it has partnered with the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore (SERIS) at the National University of Singapore to explore less costly ways of producing high-efficiency silicon wafer solar cells.
The company’s high-purity metalorganics (HPMO) business is a supplier of electronic materials to the semiconductor and solar industries. Together with SERIS, they will reportedly investigate how to respond to the photovoltaic industry’s desire to reduce the costs involved in moving towards more efficient cell architectures.