About the Company
Suniva manufactures high-efficiency monocrystalline silicon solar (ARTisun® series) cells and high power solar modules with low-cost techniques in order to make solar-generated electricity cost-competitive with fossil fuels. We are developing our products focused on the intersection of high efficiency and low-cost as we believe that is the mass market for solar PV.
Our mission is to utilize our U.S.-based technology to make our solar PV products the "Sensible" choice for creating clean, earth-friendly power generation to address global energy needs.
Our world-class team has decades of PV industry experience, a unique development approach and innovative proprietary processes that enable us to deliver leading edge solar cell performance while dramatically cutting the cost of the PV value chain. Suniva has a primary goal of driving mass adoption of high-efficiency PV technology which has significant economic, social and environmental benefits.
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Origins
Suniva evolved from the work of Professor Ajeet Rohatgi of the Georgia Institute of Technology’s University Center of Excellence in Photovoltaics. A DoE Center of Excellence since 1992, UCEP has distinguished itself as the premier site for silicon PV research in the U.S. Bringing a unique approach of uniting cell modeling, device design, process optimization and materials analysis and characterization, UCEP has consistently proven to be a valuable resource to government and industrial partners. This competency has driven efforts of the Center to evolve from that of a purely academic research environment to one of being a hands-on industry resource focused on practical solutions for commercial processing of PV materials and devices. This led to the formation of Suniva, which holds exclusive rights to over 40 granted and pending patents (from 20 patent families) from Dr. Rohatgi, UCEP and Suniva's own R&D team.
The Suniva in-house R&D team, with its deep knowledge and experience in PV manufacturing process research, collaborates closely with UCEP on cell performance optimization, material research and characterization, process optimization and next generation equipment research.
