| 2006 |
Innovation award of the governments of Berlin and Brandenburg ("Innovationspreis Berlin-Brandenburg") |
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Commencement of commercial production |
| 2005 |
Presentation of the first prototype at the European Photovoltaic Conference in Barcelona |
| 2004 |
Commissioning of assets; commencement of development project to increase lab-scale, 5 x 5cm module, to large-scale format of 125 x 65cm |
| 2003 |
Senate of Berlin grants 7 Mio. Euro to R&D activities. Sources are state and EFRD accounts. Sulfurcell is beginning to set up pilot production. |
| 2002 |
Commitment of private investors of 9 Mio. Euro and increase of capital. |
| 2001 |
Incorporation of Sulfurcell in July. Ilka Luck and Nikolaus Meyer are founding Sulfurcell Solartechnik GmbH.
Business plan of Sulfurcell Solartechnik receives award at Business-Plan-Contest Berlin-Brandenburg. |
| 1999 |
Martha Ch. Lux-Steiner and Nikolaus Meyer seize initiative for founding Sulfurcell Solartechnik GmbH. Development of business and capital acquisition starts. |
| 1998 |
HMI, research centers in Oxford, Barcelona and Naples, and the companies Saint Gobain and Vakuumtechik Dresden start the European research project Sulfurcell (Coordination: Reiner Klenk, Ilka Luck, and Roland Scheer).
After development of a standard process CIS solar cells of the HMI reach world record efficencies. |
| 1995 |
Dieter Bräunig (HMI) starts introducing industrially proven technologies to manufacture CIS solar cells. |
| 1991 |
Roland Scheer (HMI) produces the first solar cell with 10% efficiency. |
