SPAL (Spectral Photon Amplification Layer) is NanoHarvestX’s materials platform for engineering nanomaterial and thin-film architectures that change how surfaces interact with light, heat and their environment. Solar is our first application; Space, Infrastructure and Mobility extend the long-term vision. Each sector requires its own architecture, integration constraints and validation.
Explore four application tracks. Solar is the near-term validation focus; Space, Infrastructure and Mobility are at different stages of research and application development.
Optical and spectral architectures can be designed to improve how a surface uses incoming light, particularly where a photovoltaic absorber is already present.
Surface architectures can be designed to influence thermal behaviour, helping reduce temperature-driven losses or manage heat in demanding environments.
Surface chemistry and thin-film structures can be designed for environmental exposure, contamination, soiling and surface durability.
The long-term platform vision is multifunctional surfaces that can combine energy, thermal and sensing capabilities without requiring a completely new underlying structure.
Conventional photovoltaic surfaces leave performance on the table through reflection, spectral mismatch, temperature and environmental exposure. SPAL is being developed as a surface-level architecture that can address multiple loss mechanisms without replacing the underlying module.
Manage reflection and optical behaviour at the front surface so more incoming light can reach the absorber.
Explore ways of making portions of the incoming spectrum more useful to the underlying photovoltaic technology.
Explore passive surface approaches that can reduce temperature-related performance losses.
Manage soiling and surface behaviour to help preserve performance between maintenance cycles.
Performance figures and material architectures remain under development and validation. Public materials describe the platform at a functional level rather than disclose the complete technical stack.
Photovoltaic technologies are optimized for particular portions of the incoming spectrum. NanoHarvestX explores surface architectures that can alter how light interacts with the underlying absorber, with the architecture adapted to the environment and photovoltaic technology.
The exact architecture depends on the underlying photovoltaic technology, environment and validation results.
We work with research, manufacturing and deployment partners to test where active-surface architectures can create measurable value across Solar, Space, Infrastructure and Mobility.