BRITE S.A. SOLAR TECHNOLOGIES

Award-winning (€ 1.3m) Transparent Solar Glass Tech based on Dye Sensitized Solar Cells for buildings, greenhouses, highway windshields

  • Stage Concept Only
  • Industry Clean Technology
  • Location Athens, Kentrikos Tomeas Athinon, Attica, Greece
  • Currency EUR
  • Founded December 2009
  • Employees 10
  • Website britesolar.com

Company Summary

Brite's DSSC tech uses a solid electrolyte that solves reliability issues present in most competing DSSC solutions. Low costs and high efficiency make us the best. Patents already pending approvals in the US and Greece. Customers include manufacturers of glass, greenhouses, windows, windshields, aircraft, ships, automotive, solar panels, real estate developers - any industry using transparent glass for energy generation/storage.

Team

  • Dr. Nick Kanopoulos
    President & Chief Executive Officer

    28yrs of experience globally: MD for Channel Development in Europe/Africa/Mid East for Solar Business Unit of Applied Materials; Director of the Multimedia & Comms business division of Atmel Corp.; CEO of Data Communications Technologies; Adjunct professor at Duke Univers.; Manager of the Integrated Electronics Dept. at Research Triangle Institute. Education: BSc Electrical Engineering (Univers. of Patras, GR), MSc and PhD (Duke Univers., USA)

  • Dr. Elias Stathatos
    VP Engineering

    Associate Professor in the Technological Institute of Patras GR, Education: MSc in Physics and PhD (University of Patras, GR), Experience: (15yrs): Expert in Nanostructured Materials and organic electronics as applied to 3rd-generation PVs. He is the author or co-author of 65 published papers in international journals, co-inventor on two patents, and has participated in more than 11 research projects

  • Dr. Panagiotis Lianos
    Chief Technology Officer

    Professor at the University of Patras GR, Education: MSc in Physic (University of Thessaloniki, GR) and PhD (University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA), Experience: (25yrs): Expert in 3rd-generation solar cells with emphasis on organic and organic-inorganic mesoscopic solar cells. His research is published in more than 290 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings. He has two patents and participated in more than 45 research project

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