Cambridge Photon Technology (CPT) has been featured in international solar industry media, highlighting our work pushing photovoltaic performance beyond the limits of conventional silicon.
Independent coverage like this matters. It signals the challenges CPT was founded to solve – efficiency ceilings, diminishing returns, and the lack of commercially viable breakthroughs – are now widely recognised across the global solar ecosystem.
As the article explores, solar has scaled at extraordinary speed over the past decade. But while deployment has accelerated, innovation at the materials level has struggled to keep pace. Silicon-based PV is approaching its practical performance limits, and the proposed alternatives remain costly, disruptive, or years away from real-world deployment.
That’s precisely where CPT sits.
We are a deep tech, advanced materials company, developing a world-first Photon Multiplier designed to integrate directly into existing photovoltaic modules. Our approach is deliberately pragmatic: deliver a step-change in performance without requiring manufacturers to retool factories, redesign modules, or take on additional capital risk.
By capturing light that silicon cannot efficiently convert and transforming it into usable energy, CPT’s technology enables up to a 15% increase in module performance, using today’s manufacturing processes and assets. More power from every panel. Same production lines.
The external coverage also reflects a broader shift in how the industry is thinking about innovation. As hype around unproven technologies grows louder, there is increasing appetite for solutions that are innovative and IP-rich, but also practical, scalable and frictionless. CPT’s work combines organic chemistry, nanocrystal science and quantum mechanics to deliver a drop-in solution that is both technically rigorous and commercially realistic.
For solar manufacturers, encapsulant suppliers and energy asset owners, this represents a new route to differentiation and improved returns – without disruption. For investors and policymakers, it points to a rare opportunity: Western-developed, sovereign IP that strengthens energy security while unlocking value across a global market.
We’re proud to see CPT’s work recognised by respected industry voices, and we see this coverage as further validation of our mission: to make solar more powerful, without changing how it’s made.
Read the full article in PV Magazine.
