Ana Martins received the Students Award of the 35th EU PVSEC

At the 35^th EU PVSEC conference, Ana C. Martins received a Student Award for her work on “Pre-Qualification of Glass-Free Lightweight Modules for Building Integrated Photovoltaics”. She showed the possibility to develop a glass-free rigid lightweight PV module with a weight of 6 kg/m² using a standard PV manufacturing process compliant with the most demanding tests of international standards.

Additionally, EPFL/CSEM team received the best poster award for their work on silicon heterojunction solar cells: "From Wafers to Modules to Mass Production: Solving All Bottlenecks in Silicon Heterojunction Technology".They demonstrate how the processing and cost bottleneck can be overcome with recent technological advances and how the processing from n-type silicon wafers to fully metalized heterojunction solar cells is now compatible with industrial production. More detail on the related article.