Solar Power World
Excerpt: Caelux plans to work with silicon panel manufacturers
Just outside Los Angeles, one U.S. company has shipped its first commercial order of perovskite-coated glass to an unnamed solar panel manufacturer for use in an upcoming domestic project. Caelux used $24 million in funding to outfit a perovskite-coated glass factory that within two years delivered the product it has nicknamed Active Glass.
“We produce this device that’s used to create a hybrid, tandem module. We needed a name for the sheet of glass that we deposit our stack on,” Graybeal said. “It’s active glass. It does something more than just [be transparent]. We take light and produce electrons.”
Caelux’s perovskite-coated glass will act as a traditional silicon solar panel’s front glass, which can be dropped into an existing panel manufacturer’s assembly line. The boosted glass only needs a few pieces of pre-installed charge collection tape attached at the bussing station.
“We didn’t want to make it hard for the module manufacturer, because those lines run full-out,” Graybeal said. “One of our early taglines was ‘solar simplified.’ We work with customers regardless of cell type. They give us a voltage specification and junction box layout. We take that information and that informs where we put our cell tape that becomes the connection. We’ve found that’s the best way to do it — to be a partner with your customer.”
Continue reading the Caelux feature in Solar Power World Online: https://www.solarpowerworldonline.com/2025/08/us-perovskite-startups-make-moves-into-tandem-panel-manufacturing/
