Alternative Energy
As part of our commitment to innovation, Materion Large Area Coatings provides custom coatings and films for alternative energy applications such as thin film and flexible photovoltaics, thin film batteries, and fuel cells. Our years of experience with many different types of chemicals and film enable us to provide custom coatings to virtually any material, in any volume and to our customer's specific requirements.
In Alternative Energy applications, the addition of metal films, oxides, and vapor barrier films enhance the performance of the product and provide longer lifetimes for better ROI to our customers. Applications for metal contacts, resistive oxide films, cell membrane coatings and vapor barrier films are common to Materion Large Area Coatings' portfolio and include:
- Back contact films for module buses and connections
- TCO front contact films for solar modules
- Vapor barrier films for CIGS solar module protection
- Membrane coatings for enhanced fuel cell performance
- Electrode coatings for thin film battery contacts
- Flexible photovoltaics for building integrated solar applications
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