Risø DTU will put a new test method for solar cells in production

Risø DTU will put a newly developed test platform for plastic solar cells in production. In collaboration with LS Control, the new test platform will change from being a prototype to a production ready 0-series. The two partners met each other through Risø DTU’s business network.

These years, many universities and companies work to create efficient and cheap plastic solar cells, the so-called third generation solar cells. This means a shift from a few handmade laboratory cells to very large series, produced by machines. It requires a lot of testing, but existing tests are time-consuming and demanding. Therefore, scientists from the Solar Energy Programme at Risø have developed a faster and better test method.

-For quite a while, we have been annoyed by the slowness of the test phases of our own production of plastic solar cells. Therefore, Professor Frederik C. Krebs decided to develop an all-inclusive and faster test solution. The result was a method that was many times faster and at the same time also easier to use, explains Torben Damgaard Nielsen, Innovation and Business Developer at Risø DTU.

Read more about the project here (in Danish)