Disruptive approach

Hi-BITS partners work in a disruptive device structure that allows a high degree of bifaciality and photon recycling, improving the efficiency beyond the 25% threshold vs the current 23% efficiency reached by CIGS solar cells.

The foreseen applications resulting from Hi-BITS respond to market demands and are particularly well suited for building or vehicle integration and agri-photovoltaics.

Modules for these new applications will be outdoor tested in three different European climates, demonstrating higher energy yield and stability. Life cycle analysis and costing, considering aspects of circularity, will underline the superior sustainability of these new modules.

Groundbreaking results

Hi-BITS will boost thin-film manufacturing through higher efficiency, lower raw material consumption, shorter and well-controlled processes, better module technologies and novel applications.

Strong network

The project consortium brings together leading European organisations in research on thin-film PV technologies and key industrial players in the thin-film PV value chain.

Comprehensive action plan

The core of the project is built upon six technical Work Packages focused on key aspects:

  • Building blocks for new CIGS architectures (WP2)

  • High-performance solar cells with bifaciality and/or advanced light management (WP3)

  • Reduction in cell-to-module efficiency loss and process monitoring (WP4)

  • Application prototypes and road map for upscaling (WP5)

  • Device/module real-life characterisation for reliability and energy yield assessment (WP6)

  • Sustainability and compliance of new specific applications (WP7)