Propellus Inc (PRPS)

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About the patent pending SSOL's technology

Concentrated PV structures are believed to offer a low cost solution for solar energy systems. However, the current PV concentrators are focused on lowering the costs of PV systems built with bulk Si or other semiconductor materials. No currently available PV concentrators are suitable for thin film PV cells because of their thinner layer and lower manufacturing costs. Sunvalley Solar proposed a “Surface Plasmon PV Concentrator” that is designed for thin film PV cells. This will be the first PV concentrator based on surface plasmon resonance and specifically designed for thin film PV cells.

The technology we patented can potentially be commercialized for solar panel manufacturing allowing an increase in the efficiency of solar cells while at the same time reducing their cost,” said Fang Xu, CTO of Sunvalley Solar, Inc. He added, “This is just a start. We will continuously work towards design optimization and develop more innovations in this field.”http://www.solarthermalmagazine.com/2010...

For anyone to appreciate the huge potential and importance of the above technology for the (growing) thin film section of the PV business at least a very basic understanding of plasmonic PV is required.

You can start here:

http://gcep.stanford.edu/research/factsh...

Continue with:

http://www.pv.unsw.edu.au/Research/3gp_S...

but for a better understanding of what this is all about one has to go to specialized optoelectronic conferences, such as:

http://www.nature.com/nmat/archive/subje...

and published papers on the subject.

Then, and only then, if you so wish, its desired you to read and understand the the patent pending application. To access it you got to subscribe (e.g., through Domenion) - a paid subscrioption - in order to being able to access the full text of already issued (or pending) patent.