Branch Offices

The Fraunhofer CSP is a joint institution of the Fraunhofer IMWS in Halle (Saale) and Fraunhofer ISE. The Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure and Systems (IMWS) brings in its expertise in the field of optimization and assessment of silicon process technologies and module integration. The Fraunhofer ISE, the largest solar research institute in Europe, provides its competences in material manufacturing, development and characterization of solar cells and modules.

www.csp.fraunhofer.de

The Centro para Technologías en Energía Solar (Fraunhofer Chile Research-Center for Solar Energy Technology FCR-CSET) offers research and consultancy services to the Chilean solar industry and politics. Scientists from Fraunhofer ISE, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and other Chilean universities are conducting research there particularly on the solar generation of electricity and process heat as well as on water purification.

www.fraunhofer.cl/en/cset.html