On November 20, the Digital New Energy DataBM. Com learned from Guangzhou Chasing Light Technology Co., Ltd. that recently, the company has completed tens of millions of yuan of strategic round financing . This round of financing is invested by Pross Yinshan Capital, and Yunxiu Capital acts as the exclusive financial adviser.
It is reported that this is the second time that Chasing Light Technology has received industrial investment after introducing the strategic investment of Guoke Beijing Oriental in March 2023. This round of financing will also enrich the company's industrial chain resources and further accelerate the construction and commercialization of organic photovoltaic module pilot line projects. According to the
data, Chasing Light Technology, founded in 2020 and headquartered in Guangzhou, is the first company in China to focus on large-scale production of OPV materials and modules, and is also the record holder of photoelectric conversion efficiency of single-junction organic photovoltaic cells in the world.
According to Yang Xi, the founder of Light Chasing Technology, at present, the photoelectric conversion efficiency of the company's organic photovoltaic single-junction devices can reach 19.41%. The 200 * 200mm ² photovoltaic module product development line has been built, and the first generation of organic photovoltaic module DEMO has begun to be verified by customers.
*ChasingLight® OPV modules offer unique differentiated performance advantages
Organic Photovoltaics (OPV) Is a general term for a solar cell system using an organic semiconductor material as a photoelectric conversion material . At present, the organic semiconductors used in the photovoltaic field are mainly small molecules and polymers . The former is generally deposited by vacuum evaporation, while the latter is mostly deposited by printing or solution processing.
As the third generation of photovoltaic cells, these cells are composed of an organic semiconductor thin film active layer sandwiched between a transparent conductive electrode and a metal top electrode, and an electrode interface modification layer is usually needed between the electrode and the active layer to adjust the work function of the electrode and improve the charge transport and collection efficiency.
Because the thickness of the active layer of this kind of battery is generally only 100 ~ 200 nm, and the active layer can be processed in solution, it has an amorphous structure with high mechanical flexibility. Therefore, organic photovoltaic cells have outstanding characteristics in light, thin and flexible, which can complement the current silicon-based batteries in the application field, and have broad application prospects in wearable energy, consumer electronics, Internet of Things, building photovoltaic, vehicle photovoltaic and other fields.
In 1958, the organic semiconductor photovoltaic phenomenon was discovered; in 1986, Deng Qingyun and others of Kodak Company produced the first OPV device, and the conversion efficiency at that time was only about 1%. In 2000, researchers in China began to enter this field. After more than 20 years of development, the conversion efficiency of OPV has increased from 3% to 18% -19%, and the highest has exceeded 20%.
However, this technology still faces many challenges in terms of cost, battery stability, conversion efficiency, large area preparation and solvent selection for processing, and most of the reports are still based on small area devices in the laboratory. However, in view of the outstanding characteristics of OPV, organic photovoltaic is expected to open up a 100 billion blue sea market and further enhance the penetration of new energy.
In addition to light-chasing technology, Shenzhen Yirou Photovoltaic Technology Co., Ltd. and Heliatek Company of Germany are currently involved in the field of organic photovoltaics.
On November 9, according to foreign media reports, Hering Group, a German construction and engineering company, said it had acquired the photovoltaic manufacturing plant of Asca, an organic solar film developer, in Kitzingen, Germany.
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