Perovskite application developers

DESLOC, a subsidiary of the DESMAN company founded in Asia in 2009, is a global smart lock brand that aims to deliver truly self-sustaining, low‑maintenance door locks. 

At CES 2026, DESLOC unveiled its new perovskite-enhanced smart lock, the V150 Plus. 

Imec is a leading independent nanoelectronics and digital technologies R&D hub with headquarters in Belgium.

Imec leverages its state-of-the-art R&D infrastructure and its team of more than 5,500 employees and researchers for advanced semiconductor R&D activities, also including system scaling, silicon photonics, artificial intelligence, beyond 5G communications and sensing technologies. 

Imec is involved in perovskite R&D, with work on perovskite LEDs, solar panelks and more. It is also a partner in Solliance. 

KEP Technologies is a family-owned international industrial group that offers its customers and partners the implementation of industrial and technological solutions. It develops the 3 vectors that distinguish the Group: Innovation, International Presence and Diversification.

KEP Technologies uses processes for manufacturing perovskites in crystalline form, with the properties required for the detection and characterization of radioactive materials. Under its SETSAFE brand, KEP Technologies is developing nuclear measurement solutions that take advantage of the unique properties of perovskites. Knowledge and control of the synthesis of these materials benefit from more than 10 years’ experience and research at EPFL in Prof. Forró’s group. 

Depending on their design and performance, devices based on perovskite technology can detect radioactive sources for defense purposes, or to protect the public against nuclear and radiological risks. Their ability to detect and even identify radioactive isotopes also opens up prospects in the fields of industrial nuclear safety and medical applications.

Lockin is a global smart-lock and home security company that focuses on developing biometric, keyless entry systems for homes and businesses, with a particular emphasis on palm and vein-recognition technology for secure and convenient access. 

Originating under Yunding (Yunding Network Technology) in China, it has grown into an international brand with products and regional operations across Asia, Europe, North America, the Middle East, and Oceania. The company designs and manufactures a range of devices including smart door locks, video door locks, and connected-home security solutions, often combining features such as palm vein recognition, fingerprint sensing, integrated cameras, AI-based detection, and strong mechanical lock bodies that comply with major strength and security standards. 

At CES 2026, Lockin launched the Aeon smart lock, powered by perovskite solar technology. 
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Maxivio is a U.S-based startup that aims to commercialize a technology that was developed and patented at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), led by Prof. Peidong Yang: 3D printing inks based on perovskite materials, that exhibit near unity photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY). As these are 3D printable inks, it is possible to create luminescent objects from it. 

The new inks were dubbed 'supramolecular ink' and can be produced without any rare metals. They are made of a combination of several powders containing hafnium (Hf) and zirconium (Zr), and are made at room temperatures. In a process called supramolecular assembly, tiny molecular building block structures are self-assembled within the ink. These supramolecular structures enable the material to achieve stable and high-purity synthesis at low temperatures.

The new ink can be used to create 3D OLED lighting device. In addition, it's high PL efficiency could lead to its adoption as a color-conversion material (used in both LCDs and QD-OLEDs). 

NexWafe is Germany-based wafer manufacturer that was spun out from Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE in 2015 and is a member of the Ultra Low-Carbon Solar Alliance, Solar Power Europe, and the European Solar Manufacturing Council.

It designs, develops and is ramping into production a proprietary process to produce ultra-thin, high-efficiency, monocrystalline, low-carbon footprint solar wafers to make photovoltaics more sustainable and efficient. Fully compatible with conventional solar cell manufacturing, NexWafe offers a 40% reduction in energy consumption during manufacturing. NexWafe’s continuous, direct gas-to-wafer manufacturing process also minimizes waste, resulting in wafers that are less expensive than conventional wafers. NexWafe’s in-line, ultra-scalable process leapfrogs current barriers in the cost reduction roadmap and inherently supports the industry’s extraordinary growth as the transition to solar power accelerates worldwide. 

The University of Birmingham has partnered with global miner Anglo American and venture-builder Cambridge Future Tech to launch PeroCycle, a company aimed at developing and commercializing carbon recycling technology for implementation in steelmaking.

PeroCycle will build upon innovations made at the University of Birmingham’s School of Chemical Engineering by Professor Yulong Ding and Dr. Harriet Kildahl, who pioneered an in-process carbon recycling method with the use of a double perovskite material. The use of the material enables the in-process splitting of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide at considerably lower temperatures than current methods.

The carbon monoxide could then be recycled in a closed loop as a substitute for coal or coke currently used in the steelmaking process, in turn significantly reducing the volume of carbon dioxide emissions. Cambridge Future Tech, working with Anglo American, will lead the spin-out and development of PeroCycle, de-risking its path to commercial applications.