OVERVIEW

Founded in 2007, Ampulse Corporation is developing a revolutionary crystalline-silicon (c-Si) thin-film solar photovoltaic (PV) technology.

Utilizing uniquely-textured substrates and buffer materials from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and breakthroughs in Hot-Wire Chemical Vapor Deposition (HW-CVD) techniques in epitaxial silicon developed at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Ampulse is creating a solar technology that is tunable in silicon thickness, and hence in efficiency and economics, to meet the specific requirements of multiple solar PV applications. A true marriage of the efficiency properties of single-crystal silicon with low-cost thin-film manufacturing techniques, Ampulse technology is packaged into a flexible and easy-to-install form factor that affords the lowest total system cost per watt of any solar PV technology in the market. As a result, Ampulse products can be customized to address a wide range of specific market applications.

The company is led by an experienced management team, features a robust intellectual property portfolio, and is funded by the well-respected venture capital firms of Globespan Capital Partners, Battelle Ventures, and El Dorado Ventures. Additionally, Ampulse was the first recipient of Technology Commercialization and Deployment Funding (TCDF) from the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) of the U.S. Department of Energy.