Solar Power

Solutions

Southwall’s expertise in large-area Roll-to-Roll coating is ideally suited to scale the two major “Stage II” Solar Power applications:

• Low-cost flexible Thin Film Photovoltaics (TF-PV)

• Concentrating Solar Power (CSP).

Southwall recognizes the complex requirements of Solar Power applications and is dedicated to develop customized solutions based on our broad expertise:

• Optical and electrical coatings
• Flexible substrate materials
• Scaling from R&D to volume production

Products

ITO Film

Southwall’s ITO coatings provide an effective balance between electrical and optical performance for superstrate PV architectures on flexible polymer substrates and are compatible with traditional design and processing methodologies.

Silver-based Transparent Conductive Film 

As an alternative to classic ITO, Southwall’s silver-based transparent conductors allow unprecedented tuning of optical characteristics with enhanced electrical performance, opening up new possibilities to balance electrical and optical design targets for PV structures.

Silver Reflective Film

Southwall’s Silver Reflective Films are the core for flexible, polymer-based CSP mirrors that allow a new level of weight reduction and design flexibility. Our robust films enable the only commercially available polymer-based CSP mirrors that have been successfully tested at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) for environmental stability.