Halocell Energy
Halocell Energy is focused on developing perovskite solar cell technology. Halocell Energy was renamed in 2023 from Greatcell Energy.
Halocell is dedicated to advancing the performance, stability, and scalability of perovskite solar cells to make them a viable and competitive alternative to traditional silicon-based photovoltaics.
Halocell uses halide elements in its perovskites along with many other aspects of cutting-edge materials science to harvest light across various settings and commercial applications. It develops products for indoor devices, outdoor devices and industrial assets.
Halocell manufactures at its facility in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, where an Australian Government Industry Growth Program grant is funding expansion from roughly 7,000 units a year toward 100,000. Its Ambient Module series is built for indoor and low-light conditions below 500 lux, aimed at IoT devices, smart home products and other low-power electronics. Supply agreements cover electrode materials from Korea's MSWay and high-purity perovskite precursor chemicals from Lava Blue.
Contact information for Halocell Energy
Wagga Wagga NSW
Australia
Sofab Inks completes $6 million seed round, targets automotive, space and IoT markets
US-based Sofab Inks, a specialty materials developer for perovskite solar, has announced the completion of its $6 million seed funding round, led by UK-based deep tech investor Cloudberry Ventures, alongside what the company describes as a manufacturing reliability breakthrough for its fullerene-free electron transport material.
Alongside the funding, Sofab says it has achieved a manufacturing reliability breakthrough, which it describes as solving "the single biggest obstacle standing between perovskite solar and mass-market adoption: reliability at scale." The company sees durability - rather than efficiency - as the remaining barrier to commercial deployment, and that the fullerene layer is where that problem originates.
MSWay and Halocell Energy sign MOU to cooperate on flexible perovskite solar cell technology
MSWay and Halocell Energy have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to supply electrode materials in support of Halocell’s production scale-up for flexible perovskite solar cell technology.
Under the agreement, MSWay will supply its proprietary Flexible Transparent Electrode (FTE) materials for integration into Halocell Energy’s Roll-to-Roll (R2R) manufacturing processes for perovskite solar cells. This strategic partnership aims to accelerate the commercialization of lightweight, high-efficiency flexible solar cells.
Halocell Energy receives Australian grant to scale perovskite PV module production
Halocell Energy recently secured a financial boost from the Australian federal government to scale up production of its indoor perovskite PV modules.
The company has been awarded AUD 606,680 under the Australian Government’s Industry Growth Program to expand its perovskite PV manufacturing capabilities and upgrade its production facility in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. The new funding will support an increase in annual output of Halocell’s indoor perovskite PV modules from around 7,000 units today to approximately 100,000 units per year.
MXene-engineered field-effect junction boosts semi-transparent perovskite/Si tandem performance
Researchers from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, Hellenic Mediterranean University, Université Grenoble Alpes (CNRS), Halocell Europe, CHOSE, ENEA, 3SUN - Enel Green Power and BeDimensional have developed a scalable four-terminal (4T) perovskite/silicon tandem architecture that combines high efficiency, semi-transparency and real-world stability by engineering a field effect junction directly inside the perovskite absorber.
a Layout of the semi-transparent 2D material-based PSMs. Each module is composed by 24 series-connected solar cells with an active area of 2.49 cm2. The total active area is 60 cm2 while the aperture area (comprising the interconnection areas) is about 63 cm2. b Demonstrator 1 (DEM1) perovskite/Si tandem panel. Each building block is composed of four parallel-connected semi-transparent perovskite modules stacked above the M2 Si-HJT bifacial cell (provided by 3SUN). c, d Pictures of the front and back side of the laminated tandem DEM1. Image from: Nature Communications
The work targets industrially relevant, large-area modules compatible with standard silicon wafer dimensions and production lines, addressing key bottlenecks in the commercialization of perovskite/Si tandems such as scalability, efficiency loss on upscaling, and outdoor durability.
Halocell Energy Integrates Sofab Inks’ Advanced Metal Oxide Materials into Perovskite Photovoltaic Modules
Halocell Energy and Sofab Inks have announced breakthrough results from their ongoing collaboration to advance scalable perovskite photovoltaic (PV) modules.
Building on the strategic partnership announced in 2025, Halocell has successfully integrated Sofab Inks’ proprietary metal oxide nanoparticle inks as a charge transport layer in its module architecture. This integration aligns with Halocell’s roll-to-roll manufacturing approach, enabling continuous, low-cost production of thin, lightweight, and flexible perovskite PV modules.
