Greatcell Energy

30/03/2023

02/03/2023

Today we had the pleasure of showing our facility to the NSW Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change Jihad Dib MP. Our technology will be able to provide low cost, non-silicon solar energy indoors and outdoors.

18/10/2022

Thanks pv magazine, for a brilliant write-up; we're commercialising perovskite solar cells in regional Australia, and we can't wait to show you the rest of what we've got in development.

Australian manufacturer GreatCell has built a cell with roll-to-roll coating technology. It designed it without a hole transport layer (HTL) and used carbon composite back contacts, which offer excellent electrical conductivity.

19/08/2022

We're Hiring! Are you a device and material specialist? Can you develop and integrate perovskite solar cells, modules and arrays? Then apply here https://lnkd.in/gpmxH2ig

17/06/2022

It’s not every day that a company can be proud of their team for being published in Nature Portfolio ; today is one of those days. Congratulations Luca Sorbello and Enrico Leonardi, on your extraordinary accomplishments. The future of solar farms is in ultra low cost perovskites, and our team’s smart chemistry puts Greatcell at the forefront of this renaissance.

Demonstration of scalability, manufacturability and outdoor operation is key to the deployment of perovskite solar cells. Now, Pescetelli et al. fabricate a large number of perovskite solar modules, assemble them in panels and integrate them in an outdoor 4.5 m2 solar farm infrastructure whose ope...

25/05/2022

GCE has submitted an Expression of interest to Australian Renewable Energy Agency for a role in the $40M programme to research and commercialise Ultra Low Cost Solar ‘ULCS’. Macquarie University and QUT (Queensland University of Technology) are our key partners for the three-year research phase, in which we intend to develop Dual-Perovskite solar modules.

The basis of our proposal is the potential for double junction PSC to outperform silicon-based products due to the high specific power of PSC arising from low weight matched by high efficiency. That opens up the many markets that heavy crystalline silicon cannot address, such as large span roofing, electric vehicles, and drones. Our proposal also addresses several advantages in significantly reducing the cost of GCE PSC by eliminating the use of high-cost conductors, transparent conductive oxides and organic hole conductors. GCE and our team are looking forward to the evaluation and potentially bidding for a ULSC contract.

08/03/2022

Are you looking for a job in perovskites? Greatcell Australia is always on the hunt for enthusiastic scientists and technologists to expand our team. We're at the forefront of ultra low-cost solar, expanding Australia's sovereign manufacturing capacity in New South Wales's largest inland city, Wagga Wagga. If you're looking for a lawn change, a backyard and an active lifestyle, send an email to [email protected]

20/01/2022

We welcome the Australian Renewable Energy Agency's announcement of a $40m grant round to ultra low cost solar. We think our new roll to roll manufacturing line might make them excited for the future of in Australia's largest inland city, Wagga Wagga.

14/01/2022

Work has commenced on Greatcell Australia's facility expansion, we're looking forward to a great new year in 2022 with enhanced capacity and increasing capability with our raft of new hires.

07/01/2022

Greatcell's Italian branch has been active over the last month, with many focuses, including our responsibilities for APOLO and Graphene 3.

We improved our knowledge on metal substrate-based flexible perovskite solar modules on the cell front by developing a novel structure (metal/isolation layer/electrode) to make a z-series connected large-area perovskite solar module on metal foil. The creation of the uniform isolation layer is on a 20 cm x 10 cm flexible metallic substrate. Our first tests demonstrated the feasibility of separating the sub-cells, with a promising active area >87%, by using a laser scribing system.

GSI has also worked on the lamination front, concentrating the efforts on testing sealing materials based on ionomers as alternatives to EVA for encapsulation of both PSC and heterojunction solar cells via a hot vacuum lamination process. Preliminary tests showed that such materials seem to be chemically and temperature compatible with PSCs and very easy to handle and apply.

GSI has designed a novel liquid cooling system for the Hyperion solar simulator development to enable its usage in a glove box. Following the implementation of Wi-Fi connection, the additional cooling system was the last step needed to introduce the solar simulator inside a glove box to measure the cells directly as part of the manufacturing process. This innovative solar simulator is known as Hyperion IVGB.

28/07/2020

This is excellent work. Understanding WHY will help us improve efficiency and longevity.

The source of thermodynamic instability found in "rattling" behavior. Researchers in the Cava Group at the Princeton University Department of Chemistry have demystified the reasons for instability in an inorganic perovskite that has attracted wide attention for its potential in creating highly effi