Twice as much electricity for the same surface area: that sums up Insolight’s solar panels. The company, which is based in EPFL’s Innovation Park and finalist of MassChallenge Switzerland, has developed a prototype with a yield – the quantity of electricity produced from the light energy received – of 36.4%, while solutions currently available on the market offer throughput of only around 18-20%. These results, which could represent a world record, have just been validated on a prototype by the Fraunhofer Institute, an independent lab based in Germany….
Source: EPFL