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4 April 2012

Dr. Marc Kaelin appointed as interim CEO of Flisom AG

[Chairman's announcement]

23 March 2012

Flisom presented flexible solar modules at Immo Messe, 23-24 March, St. Gallen, Switzerland

22 March 2012

Flisom displayed flexible solar modules at Photovoltaik Tagung 2012 in Baden, Switzerland

28 November 2011

Flisom presented flexible solar modules for a range of applications at the Swiss Energy Research Conference in Bern, Switzerland.

19 May 2011

New 18.7% cell efficiency world record. Scientists at EMPA's Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Flisom's research partner, have officially demonstrated 18.7% efficiency for CIGS photovoltaic cells on plastic. [Press release]
PV Tech, SolarBuzz, SolarServer, PhysOrg, news.admin.ch, Berner Zeitung (with Video), Membrana (Russian)

11 May 2011

Dr. David Brémaud, Director of Product Development, presented "Hocheffiziente, flexible Solarzellen für mobile Anwendungen und Gebaüdeintegration" at EKZ Fachtagung Photovoltaik in Zurich.

9 March 2011

Dr. David Brémaud, Director of Product Development, presented Flisom's activities at the Nano-Cluster Bodensee meeting in Winterthur [PDF 106 KB] (in German)

2 November 2010

Clean Energy Expo Asia. Flisom was in Singapore to present its modules.

1 October 2010

Swiss electric utilities BKW and Axpo approve contracts for R&D projects at Flisom.

28 June 2010

17.6% record efficiency certified

EMPA, Flisom's scientific partner, succeeds in producing solar cells with 17.6% conversion efficiency (independently certified by Fraunhofer ISE). This new world record for solar cells on polymers was presented at the IEEE Photovoltaics Specialist Conference in Hawaii, June 20-25, 2010. EMPA and Flisom work closely on the development of flexible CIGS solar modules. Press release (pdf) with technical data

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Media coverage

10 June 2011

Tages-Anzeiger, Solaranlagen - neu auch superschlank talks about Flisom's solar modules.

8 June 2011

NZZ, Solarzellen auf flexiblem Grund, highlights EMPA's Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics, Flisom's research partner, and the development of record efficiency flexible solar cells. [PDF]

28 March 2011

Swiss Cleantech Report 2011 underlines the contribution of Flisom and its products to clean technologies in section "Doing business with the Sun", page 46, within the framework of a CTI collaboration.

1 November 2010

Kanton Zürich Cluster Bericht 2009-2010, page 59, Nov. 2010. Zürich's summary of business activities brochure contains a sidebar about Flisom.

5 October 2010

Thin Film Today, Oct. 5, 2010. Breaking records: an inside view of Flexible CIGS. Paul French interviews Flisom chairman Prof. Ayodhya N. Tiwari regarding the 17.6% conversion efficiency record broken by the Laboratory for Thin Films and Photovoltaics at EMPA.

1 October 2010

InterPV, Oct. 2010. CIGS on Plastic: Efficiency Goes High, Article in PDF [5.8 MB].

9 July 2010

swissinfo.ch, 9 July 2010, Solar power: the sky's the limit

30 June 2010

Bilan, 30 June 2010, Les 300 personnalités les plus influentes de Suisse. Bilan business magazine lists Flisom CEO Anil Sethi as one of the 300 most influential persons in Switzerland.

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