The company will collaborate with Imec — a nanoelectronics research centre in the city of Leuven — on efforts to lower the cost of solar energy by raising the efficiency of PV cells and panels.
“We hope to further advance silicon photovoltaic cell technologies in order to make solar energy more accessible,” Kyocera senior executive Nobuo Kitamura said in an online statement.
Imec says its multi-partner R&D system, known as the industrial affiliation programme (IIAP), can achieve conversion efficiencies of 22.5%
