SOLAR ENERGY CELLS - CIGS POWDER MANUFACTURE

With the increasingly urgent global focus on bringing affordable solar electricity to the mass market, PSI has developed a new method for the production of photovoltaic materials (Copper Indium Gallium Selenide - CIGS) in ultrafine powder forms, that are critical in the research and production modelling techniques of new solar thin film technologies.

In the drive to develop the market leading photovoltaic cell technology, the use of different amalgams of Copper Indium Gallium Selenide - or CIGS - to increase the proportion of the solar energy spectrum captured by a solar cell has become a key factor in driving up the efficiency of solar energy systems.

A direct development from PSI's ground breaking work in a related renewable energy sector - the mass production of low cost, premium grade Titanium powder - PSI are now able to provide the solar energy sector with the means to rapidly produce - in both research and production volumes - CIGS powders from their own 'in house' facility, allowing CIGS composition experimentation, rapid prototype trailing and mass production scaling models in the commercial security of their own laboratories.