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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 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.