Explore Azure Photon's latest milestones, national media features, conference showcases, academic spin-off events, and breakthrough research achievements.
Azure Photon was interviewed on the prominent RTP Mundo podcast “Isto Faz-se Por Cá”, a flagship programme celebrating cutting-edge Portuguese science, technology, and entrepreneurship. The interview highlighted Azure Photon's breakthrough laser-assisted encapsulation technology, explaining how our 20+ year hermetic seal is enabling autonomous, batteryless IoT devices and positioning the University of Porto spin-off on the global clean-tech map.
Azure Photon received extensive coverage across Portugal's leading national news, business, and technology outlets, spearheaded by an in-depth feature in Expresso: "Azure Photon: a empresa nascida na Universidade do Porto que quer libertar o mundo das baterias descartáveis". The national press spotlighted our innovative mission to replace polluting single-use batteries in billions of IoT sensors and retail electronic shelf labels with high-efficiency indoor perovskite solar cells.
Azure Photon participated with a dedicated exhibition booth at the SIM Conference 2026, presenting live hardware demonstrations of our laser-sealed perovskite modules and ambient light-harvesting prototypes. Our booth welcomed industrial stakeholders and technology leaders, sparking promising discussions for commercial partnerships and joint pilot deployments. Azure Photon is deeply grateful to INOVAGAIA for providing this valuable opportunity.
Selected as a standout deep-tech innovator, Azure Photon took the stage at the INOVAGAIA Scale with Us Pitch Day. The presentation underscored our commercial scaling trajectory, patent-protected encapsulation solutions, and the market potential for indoor photovoltaic energy harvesting, earning enthusiastic engagement from investors and ecosystem mentors.
Azure Photon has forged a new consortium for a significant European call, coordinated by Konya University in Turkey, collaborating with Gunes to further develop our advanced encapsulation technology for robust outdoor applications.
Our proposal submitted for the highly competitive European Innovation Council (EIC) Transition Call was honored with the prestigious Seal of Excellence — a powerful testament to the superior quality, innovative potential, and scientific rigor of our work, involving FEUP, Fraunhofer ISE, and SODAQ as consortium partners.
Azure Photon announces the official kick-off of the PVBoost project, spearheaded by A400 from Porto and in close partnership with the University of Porto, pioneering perovskite solar cell sensors for seamless building integration. Visit PVBoost website →
Pitching before an audience of entrepreneurs, business angels, and technology experts at the UPTEC School of Startups Pitch Day, Azure Photon showcased how more than a decade of research at the University of Porto has been successfully translated into market-ready deep-tech solutions for sustainable energy and IoT autonomy.
Azure Photon was proudly featured during the annual FEUP Day celebrations at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. As an official spin-off born from FEUP’s research laboratories, Azure Photon’s journey from scientific breakthrough to commercial venture was recognized as an exemplary model of academic innovation and deep-tech impact.
Azure Photon was honored at the FEUP Deep Tech Academic Spin-Offs event, celebrating high-impact ventures translating cutting-edge scientific discovery into industrial reality. The team showcased our dual-beam laser sealing technology and its capacity to solve the critical lifetime challenge in 3rd generation solar cells.
Azure Photon launched a Voucher Startup project developing three innovative prototypes integrating perovskite technology with advanced sensors for temperature, humidity, and Electronic Shelf Labels (ESLs) for the Internet of Things (IoT) market.
Azure Photon successfully secured a second phase for the Pulsate: LaserEncap project, deepening collaboration with Aimen, the dedicated coordinator at Vigo. Our team undertook several strategic visits, documenting progress through extensive photographic evidence.
We are proud to announce the commencement of our work on the Pulsate: LaserEncap project in early 2024. This initial phase involved intensive technical development and close collaboration with key partners such as MTC. Read the Success Story →