Concentrated Solar Power

Concentrated Solar Power

Concentrated photovoltaic, or CPV, technology uses lenses or reflectors to concentrate the sun’s light onto multijunction solar cells that convert it to DC electricity. 

Materion’s precious metals products and services are used extensively in the fabrication of these solar cells, and our thermally conductive CPV submounts help keep them cool under the concentrated heat of several hundred suns.

Enabling Technology

We combine our extensive expertise in precious metals, ceramics and high-value materials management to offer superior solar energy device solutions:

• Premelted evaporants reduce process start up time, improve equipment utilization and limit operator dependence

• Sputtering targets with optimized microstructures improve target life and coverage uniformity

• Nonabrasive chemical cleaning and high-efficiency precious metal refining services streamline maintenance logistics and provide the best financial returns

• Custom-designed material compositions and forms maximize the potential of your deposition process

• Highly engineered metalized and non- metallized ceramic substrates improve PV cell performance and reliability

Our photovoltaic materials experts can help you realize the lowest total cost of ownership in your solar cell manufacturing operation.

Concentrator Solar Power Materials  

Concentrator solar power, or CSP, uses reflectors to focus the sun’s thermal energy, and converts the heat to electricity using a steam turbine and an electrical power generator.  Materion’s reflective and anti-reflective materials are used extensively in the mirrors of heliostat reflectors.  Our extensive experience in manufacturing materials for large area coatings gives us – and our customers – a competitive edge in solar reflector manufacturing.

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