Completion of a $25m round of fundraising at Canadian concentrating PV (CPV) outfit Morgan Solar late last year is oiling the wheels for the roll-out of its innovative Sun Simba module, with a string of commercial-scale deliveries slated for the first half of 2012.

Sun Simba is an integrated “non-cell” PV concept built around a patented light-guide solar optic (LSO) structure — an ultra-thin acrylic and glass arrangement designed to “trap and transport” sunlight on to a triple-junction III-V cell fitted at the centre of the module.

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