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A memorial ceremony was held at Tokyo Kaikan to commemorate former PXP president, Mr. Shigeaki Kameda, who passed away at the end of last year. The dream of realizing a world where solar energy can be used freely by anyone, anywhere, anytime has been succeeded by the next generation and is moving forward.

We gave a presentation titled “PXP’s Approach to Mobility Photovoltaic Power Generation” at the 10th Mobility Photovoltaic Power Generation Seminar hosted by the Photovoltaic Power Generation Technology Research Association (PVTEC).

At the Work Experience EXPO 2024 (held at Soleil Sagami and Hashimoto Community Center) hosted by Sagamihara City, we held a solar panel craft workshop and made a presentation on PXP’s activities.

PXP reported to PR TIMES that it has raised a total of 1.5 billion yen in a Series A round of financing with SoftBank as the lead investor.

PXP will participate as one of the collaborators in the Ministry of the Environment’s “Development of Retrofit Type Energy Saving Electric Drive System for Railway Vehicles” (representative company: JETconnect Co., Ltd.), a regional co-creation and cross-sectoral carbon-neutral technology development and demonstration project.

We gave a presentation entitled “Development of Next-Generation Solar Panels for Zero Carbon” at a special program of the ZERO CARBON Poster Session Challenge hosted by Sagamihara City (held at Aoyama Gakuin University’s Sagamihara Campus).

We gave a plenary talk entitled “Flexible Perovskite/Chalcopyrite Tandem Solar Cells for New Field Applications” at the 35th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference held in Numazu, Shizuoka, Japan.

Our company was introduced in an article of SIC KAWARABAN (Sagamihara incubation center).

The visit to PXP was broadcasted by Yomiuri TV’s news program “Wake Up,” an affiliate of Nippon Television Network Corporation, in an interview with Governor Kuroiwa of Kanagawa Prefecture.

PXP’s solar panels were introduced in the exhibition booth of Sagamihara City Zero Carbon Promotion Division at Sagamihara Festa 2024.

PXP’s large solar panel was exhibited in the booth of SOLABLE Trading inc. at the “Forestry and Environmental Machinery Exhibition” a memorial event of the 47th National Tree-Planting Festival, held at Ski Jam Katsuyama, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.

We gave a presentation titled “Development of Flexible Perovskite/Chalcopyrite Tandem Solar Cells” at the CIGS Thin-Film Workshop 2024 (held at the Paradise Hotel Busan) in Busan, Korea.

We made a presentation titled “Development of Flexible Tandem Solar Cells Using Perovskite and Chalcopyrite” at the Solar Cell Forum (held at the Kanagawa Science Park) hosted by the Kanagawa Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (KISTEC).

We exhibited our products at Kanagawa Prefecture Automotive Technology Exhibition in Honda (Tochigi) in 2024.

We gave a presentation titled “Building a Buried Interface with AJI-NO-MOTO Modification of SnO₂ ETL for High Performance Perovskite Photovoltaic Devices” at the PRiME 2024 (Hilton Hawaii Village) in Hawaii.

Governor Kuroiwa of Kanagawa Prefecture visited our company. He saw our refrigerated containers with next-generation solar panels attached, which we are developing jointly with Topre Corporation under contract with Kanagawa Prefecture’s research and development project.

We gave a presentation titled “Highly efficient perovskite/chalcopyrite tandem solar cells via scalable dry process“ at the 7th International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics (PSCO2024) in Perugia, Italy.

We made a presentation entitled “Enemy or ally? Sphalerite, Chalcopyrite and Perovskite thinfilm PV” at the Symposium on Organic vs Inorganic Compound Materials, Thin-film Solar Cell Battle Royale of the 85th JSAP Autumn meeting 2024 held at TOKI MESSE.

We made a presentation entitled “Proton Degradation-Free Lightweight Flexible Solar Cells” at The 23rd International Workshop on Space Solar Cell Calibration and Measurement Techniques (AM0 Workshop) held in Cleveland.

PXP was featured in CEO Insight Asia’s TOP 10 CTOs IN JAPAN.

Article is here.

The article titled “PXP/Renewed Challenge with Flexible Solar Cells” was published in the Denki Shimbun (Electric Daily News) published by the Japan Electric Association.

We made a presentation entitled “Development of Lightweight Flexible Solar Cells with Strong Radiation Hardness” at the 2024 Workshop on Space Power Supplies and Related Technologies held at X-NIHONBASHI TOWER by JAXA.

We made a presentation titled “Realization of Smart Energy Society by EOT (Energy of Things)” at the 75th Analog Technology Trend Seminar (Kyoto Terrsa) hosted by the High Frequency and Analog Semiconductor Business Study Group.

The article titled “Topre’s refrigerated trucks to demonstrate next-generation flexible solar cells” was published in Best Car’s truck magazine Fullroad web.

An article titled “Chalcopyrite Solar Cells Receive Many Inquiries, Mother Plant to be Built” was published in the New Energy Business News published by The Heavy & Chemical Industries News Agency.

Sangyo Times inc. introduced our company in an article titled “PXP Announces Strategy for Automotive PV, Tandem Type to Run 25km” in the Electronic Device Industry News.

PXP’s proposal “Introduction of Next Generation Solar Panel Assembly Robot” has been adopted by Sagamihara City for its subsidy project “Sagamihara City Industrial Robot Introduction Subsidy“.

We made a presentation entitled “EOT (Energy of Things) for Smart Energy Society” at Climate Tech Community Tokyo Meetup Summer 2024 (KDDI DIGITAL GATE, Toranomon)

PXP was introduced in the “Renewable Energy x Tech Venture Chaos Map 2024” of LIVIKA, an information media operated by LOHASTYLE Co.

PXP appeared on FM Yokohama’s program “Brand New! Friday“.
Next-generation solar cells from Sagamihara City were picked up in the Life Style Labo segment of the program.

We reported to PR TIMES that we have been selected for a research and development project by Kanagawa Prefecture in collaboration with Topre Corporation.

We made a presentation entitled “Development of next-generation solar cells for new fields” at the 21st “Next Generation Photovoltaic Power Generation Systems” Symposium of the Japan Photovoltaic Society held at Hiroshima International Conference Center.

We reported in PR TIMES on our efforts toward early commercialization of Flexible Perovskite Tandem Solar Cells.

Our company was introduced in an article titled “PSC and CIGS cells achieve efficiency of over 26%” of the Electronic Device Industry News (Sangyo Times inc.).

We made presentations entitled “FAPbI₃ Perovskite Solar Cells Exceeding 22% Power Conversion Efficiency Prepared via Ultra-Fast Single-Sourced Evaporated PbI₂” and “Temperature and Spectrum Dependence on Light Soaking Recovery for Proton-Irradiated Flexible Chalcopyrite Solar Cells” at the 52nd IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference held at Seattle International Convention Center.

We reported in PR TIMES that we have developed flexible solar cells with extremely high radiation tolerance in space.

We will give a presentation titled “Development of Flexible Solar Panels for Automotive Applications” at the seminar “Technology Trends of Automotive Solar Cells and Challenges and Future Prospects for Evaluation and Loss Reduction” hosted by AndTech Corporation.

A distribution titled “Ultra-Light Solar Cells for New Frontier” has started on the Youtube channel Photovoltaics University.

We made a presentation entitled “The Future of EV x Flexible Solar Cells” at the annual meeting of the Industrial Society for Next Generation Vehicle held at Tennozu Central Tower.

We reported in PR TIMES that we have started demonstration tests of EV tricycles with next-generation flexible solar cells.

Our company was introduced in an article of SIC KAWARABAN (Sagamihara incubation center).

At the booth of Nagoya Electric Works Co., Ltd. on the Municipal General Fair 2024 (Tokyo Big Sight), PXP’s “non-fragile ultra-light flexible solar cells” was attached to an ultra-compact EV, which is expected to be used as a data collection vehicle during disasters.

Our company was introduced in an article titled “Flexible Solar Cells Leading the World” of Nikkei TRENDY (Nikkei Business Publications, Inc.).

The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd. published an article on our company titled “Another Challenge with Light, Thin, and Flexible CIS Solar Cells” in New Switch.

From Mar 26th to Apr 30th, 2024, our solar panels will be on display in the lobby of the main building on the first floor of Sagamihara City Hall.

We made a presentation entitled “Development of Flexible Solar Cells with Chalcopyrite Compounds” at the Symposium on Functionality and physical properties of multi-compounds for the future at the 71st JSAP Spring meeting 2024 held at Tokyo City University.

SAN-EI CORPORATION published an article on our company titled “Current Status on Development of Flexible Solar Cells” in the Motor Fan technology TOPPER.

We made a presentation entitled “Development of Flexible Thin-Film Solar Cells for Mobility” at the subcommittee workshop of the Japan Photovoltaic Society held at Tokyo University of Science.

Our company was introduced in an article titled “Perovskite solar cells approaching commercialization” of the Electronic Device Industry News (Sangyo Times inc.).

Shingari Co., Ltd. published an article on our company titled “How will flexible solar cells change EVs?” in the CARSMORA.

Our company was introduced in an article of Sokei Daily Paper.

Related link: Sagamihara incubation center

Our company was introduced in an article titled “KDDI’s perovskite base stations with new generation solar cells” of Keitai Watch (Impress Corporation).

We made a presentation entitled “Light-Weight and Smart VIPV Modules via Thin-Film Technology” at the PV in Motion 2024: Conference & Exhibition of Vehicle Integrated PV held at EPFL, Neuchatel, Switzerland.

Mayor Kentarou Motomura of Sagamihara City visited our company.

PXP appeared on FM Yokohama’s program “Keep Green & Blue”.
The recording was broadcasted on the following schedule.
PXP was also featured on the program’s blog.

2/26 Mon 23:20-23:30 Program Blog (1)
2/27 Tue 23:20-23:30 Program Blog (2)
2/28 Wed 23:20-23:30 Program Blog (3)
2/29 Thu 23:20-23:30 Program Blog (4)

Our company was introduced in an article titled “Perovskite Solar Cells – A Winning Strategy” of New Switch (The Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Ltd.).

We made a presentation entitled “Developing world-class technology at an affordable price! Non-fragile ultra-light flexible solar panels” at the Utsunomiya, Sagamihara, Shizuoka, Chiba 4-city joint startup pitch held at Shibuya Open Innovation Lab.

We exhibited our products at the 28th “Earthquake Disaster Countermeasures Technology Exhibition” (Pacifico Yokohama).

Sangyo Times inc. published an article on our company titled “PXP, prototype production line is up and running, significantly reducing manufacturing costs.” in the Electronic Device Industry News.

We exhibited our products at the 16th Automotive World (Tokyo Big Sight).

A demonstration EV with “non-fragile ultra-light flexible solar cells” was exhibited. We also showed solar cells with improved design and solar panels attached to various curved surfaces.

Introduction is here.

PR TIMES reported that a demonstration EV with our flexible solar cells has been completed and will be exhibited at “Automotive World“.

The completion and start of operation of the pilot line for our flexible solar cells was reported in PR TIMES.

Our company was introduced in an article of business wave (Kanagawa Shinbun).

Related link: Sagamihara incubation center

Our new technology for flexible solar cells that can be freely attached and connected was reported in PR TIMES.

Nikkei inc. published an article on our company titled “23% Tandem Solar Cells” in the Nikkei Business Daily.

The best paper award at the 1st Middle East and North Africa Solar Conference by our integrated structure of flexible perovskite / chalcopyrite tandem solar cell and all-solid-state battery was reported in PR TIMES.

We made a presentation entitled “Feasibility Study of Rechargeable Flexible Tandem Solar Cells for VIPV Applications under Realistic Environments” at the 1st Middle East and North Africa Solar Conference held at Dubai World Trade Centre.

PXP’s presentation won the Best Paper Award.

We made a presentation entitled “High Efficiency Flexible Chalcopyrite Solar Cells with Narrow-Gap Absorber for Tandem Applications” at the 34th International Photovoltaic Science and Engineering Conference held at Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center in collaboration with Tokyo Institute of Technology.

We reported 19.2% Eff on flex chalcopyrite enhanced NIR sensitivity for suitable bottom cell of tandem, and 23.6% tandem Eff with scalable dry-process perovskite.

Our company was introduced in the talk “Status of efforts regarding solar power generation vehicles” at the 40th Solar Power Symposium held at the Tokyo International Forum by Japan Photovoltaic Energy Association.

We made a presentation at the 12th Annual Conference: Building a Sustainable, Secure and Inclusive Future Together held at Renaissance Washington, DC Downtown Hotel by the U.S.-Japan Council.

Our achievement of 23.6% efficiency on flexible perovskite / chalcopyrite tandem solar cell was disclosed in PR TIMES.

We made a presentation entitled “Development of High Durability Chalcopyrite Thin-film Solar Cells” at the 2023 Workshop on Space Power Supplies and Related Technologies held at Nagoya university by JAXA.

The flexible solar cells developed by PXP have shown extremely high durability in the severe irradiation and temperature environment. This was a first step toward realizing aerospace applications and radiative application.

Construction of clean room for our pilot line have been completed.

Construction of pilot line for evaluating manufacturing process of PXP’s flexible solar cells have been started.

We made a presentation entitled “Heat-Tolerant Flexible Chalcopyrite Solar Cells via All-Sputtered Cd-free Electron Transport Layers” at the 40th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition held at Lisbon Congress Centre in collaboration with Tokyo Institute of Technology.

The flexible solar cells developed by PXP have shown extremely high durability in the severe temperature environment. This was a first step toward realizing VIPV and aerospace applications with considerably high temperature environment.

We made a presentation entitled “Proton Degradation-free Flexible Chalcopyrite Solar Cells without Cover Glass and Adhesive” at the 50th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference held at Puerto Rico International Convention Center in collaboration with JAXA and QST.

The flexible solar cells developed by PXP have shown extremely high durability in the severe space environment. This was a first step toward the realization of low-cost, long-life solar cells for space applications.

Motor-Fan published an article on our company titled “Future Solar Cells Part 2: Metal Substrate Type CIS Solar Cells, The Methods of Global Warming Mitigation (Part 60)“.

Our company was introduced in an article titled “The Realization of Solar Cars is Halfway” of the Electronic Device Industry News (Sangyo Times inc.).

Our company was introduced at the Symposium of “EN02: Thin-Film Compound Semiconductor Photovoltaics” in the MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit, 2023.

Our company was introduced at the Symposium of “New trends in photovoltaics: progresses and future developments” in the 103rd Annual Meeting, Chemical Society of Japan, 2023.

Sangyo Times inc. published an article on our company titled “Next-Generation PV Emerging Company Develops Tandem for Automotive” in the Electronic Device Industry News (Page 7).

We made a presentation entitled “Recent Progress in the Development of New High-Efficiency Photovoltaic Devices Using Chalcopyrite” at the 4th meeting of Energy for Carbon Neutrality and SDGs, Automobile Research Society, FY2022.

Our company was introduced in IPROS MONOZUKURI.