Ultra-Thin Cover Glass for Space Photovoltaics

Glass-Based Cell Protection for Space Solar Arrays

Heliofold supplies ultra-thin cover glass as the lead protection material for spacecraft solar-cell stacks, combining high optical transmission, UV filtering, radiation stability, and low-Earth-orbit durability in a familiar glass-on-cell integration route.

What We Supply

Cover Glass and Supporting Space-PV Materials

Heliofold’s lead product is ultra-thin cover glass for spacecraft photovoltaic protection stacks. SCPI film, flexible HJT cells, and silicone adhesives are presented as complementary materials for stack evaluation, bonding, and integration discussions.

Ultra-Thin Cover Glass

Heliofold’s lead product route: ultra-thin glass for radiation protection, optical shielding, thermal-control compatibility, and conventional solar-cell cover-stack integration.

SCPI Film

A lightweight transparent polymer-film option for architectures where mass reduction, flexibility, and environmental shielding are dominant design requirements.

Other / Supporting Products

Flexible HJT cell modules, DPA-8800 structural silicone, and GPA-8811 transparent bonding silicone are retained as supporting products for stack evaluation and assembly use cases.

Cover Glass Material Snapshot

Transmission.
Stability.
Space durability.

A material-level snapshot for Heliofold ultra-thin cover glass. The data below summarizes optical, mechanical, thermal, and low-Earth-orbit durability indicators for spacecraft solar-cell protection-stack screening.

Material classCerium-doped ultra-thin space cover glass
Primary roleRadiation protection and optical shielding layer
Use boundaryFinal stack performance remains mission-specific

Primary Product Route

Ultra-Thin Cover Glass for Space Cell Stacks

Cover glass remains a standard protection route for spacecraft photovoltaic programs because it combines radiation shielding, optical transmission, dimensional stability, and compatibility with established cell-cover adhesive processes.

Heliofold ultra-thin cover glass is intended for customers who need a glass-based protection layer with reduced thickness, high initial transmittance, UV filtering, and low-Earth-orbit atomic-oxygen durability.

Final stack qualification should be defined by orbit, cover-glass thickness, coating design, cell type, adhesive route, and thermal-control target.

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Ultra-thin cover glass sample on gloved hand

Future Lightweight Film Route

SCPI Film for Next-Generation Lightweight Stacks

Heliofold is building SCPI film as a future lightweight protection route for spacecraft photovoltaic architectures that require reduced mass, mechanical flexibility, and transparent environmental shielding.

The current primary product route is ultra-thin cover glass. SCPI is positioned as a forward-looking polymer film option for customers evaluating next-generation lightweight stack concepts beyond conventional glass-on-cell configurations.

Customer adoption will remain application-specific and requires stack-level validation of radiation exposure, atomic-oxygen durability, adhesive compatibility, mechanical compliance, and array-level integration.

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SCPI film sample

Discuss Your Cover-Glass Protection Stack

Tell us your orbit, cell platform, target cover-glass thickness, coating requirement, optical target, thermal range, and adhesive route. Heliofold can provide ultra-thin cover glass information, with SCPI and supporting materials available for selected stack-evaluation discussions.