THORNTON, Colo., April 12 (UPI) -- Cambrios Technologies and Ascent Solar Technologies have formed a partnership to research solar power solutions to address U.S. Army requirements.
Ascent says it will investigate its flexible thin-film solar modules jointly with Cambrios' ClearOhm film solution in a research partnership supporting the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center.
Ascent and Cambrios will research whether their film technologies can be used with copper-indium-gallium-selenium photovoltaics in a move to potentially address next-generation power requirements at U.S. military installations among other applications.
"Ascent Solar has very high efficiency CIGS solar cells so they are the perfect partner for this program," Cambrios Chief Executive Officer Michael Knapp said in a statement.
"Unlike transparent conductive oxides typically used as thin-film solar cell electrodes, Cambrios' ClearOhm material is also highly flexible. Together our companies have the right technologies to provide the Army with lightweight, flexible CIGS solar cells with better efficiency than what has been possible to date."
