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April 30, 2020
BBC News: A breakthrough approaches for solar power
According to Max Hoerantner, co-founder of Swift Solar, a San Francisco start-up, there are only about 10 start-up firms in...
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April 29, 2020
Swift Solar, NREL, and other perovskite industry players launch US-MAP consortium for U.S. perovskite manufacturing
“Perovskites have the potential to become a game-changer for solar and many other fields,” said Martin Keller, director of NREL....
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February 6, 2020
MIT News features new paper co-authored by Swift co-founder and CEO
Materials called perovskites show strong potential for a new generation of solar cells, but they’ve had trouble gaining traction in...
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January 16, 2020
Swift co-founder Max Hoerantner featured on leading Austrian startup and technology news site
(Translated from German) Swift Solar: How an Austrian builds a solar startup in Silicon Valley He was at ETH Zurich,...
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September 19, 2019
MIT News highlights PV techno-economic analysis by Swift co-founder Joel Jean
A new study shows that, contrary to widespread belief within the solar power industry, new kinds of solar cells and...
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June 26, 2019
NREL awarded $745K for DOE Technology Commercialization Fund project with Swift Solar
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) received more than $3.2 million from the Technology Commercialization Fund within the U.S. Department...
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May 16, 2019
MIT Technology Review: These flexible solar cells bring us closer to kicking the fossil-fuel habit
No solar material has managed to supplant silicon. Perovskites, which are far cheaper and can be made into flexible modules,...
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December 26, 2018
TechCrunch: A new solar technology could be the next big boost for renewable energy
Across the globe, a clutch of companies from Oxford, England to Redwood City, Calif. are working to commercialize a new...
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December 20, 2018
Swift co-founder Sam Stranks is a featured TED Fellow
Someday, solar panels may be light and cheap enough that they could be hung on a clothesline, thanks to a...
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