The company, who last week announced that it had won the High Efficiency Solar Cell Program, has many reasons to be happy lately. Ascent won, back in January, a contract from ITN Energy Systems, transferred by the US Air Force.
Under the new Air Force contract, the Colorado-based company will develop a transparent conductive oxide (TCO) material to serve as the top electrical contact for flexible, monolithically integrated thin-film CIGS solar cells.
Ascent believes that this process will involve developing a new material system that will be deposited using a roll-to-roll process.
“This program provides us with a unique opportunity to improve the top layer of our flexible thin-film photovoltaic product. We believe that the new film material and innovative manufacturing method offers the potential for significantly lower-cost and better-performing products in the future.” Dr. Joseph Armstrong, Ascent Solar Vice President and CEO, said.
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