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Perovskites step out of the labs

Michael van der Gugten, Sales and Marketing Executive at Smit Thermal Solutions, is convinced that perovskite solar cells have reached maturity, and that they are ready to make the step from the lab to production. He is leading the organization of a conference on this topic and expects that the perovskite community, production equipment suppliers and crystalline silicon cell manufacturers will discuss the implementation of perovskite-silicon tandem cells or the production of standalone perovskite modules.
Michael van der Gugten (left) meets with pv magazine at SNEC 2019 in Shanghai. | Image: pv magazine/ Dave Tacon

You have been developing production equipment for organic PV and thin film manufacturing for several years, and now you say it’s time to adapt it to perovskite production. What makes you believe that perovskites will be a success?Perovskite solar cell development started 10 years ago and in a short time we saw very large improvements …

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