when founder Hannes Deuser joined photovoltaics research institute ISC Konstanz, driven by a shared passion for solar technology. Fast evolving silicon photovoltaic devices required accurate characterization, which lead to the development of the first integrated quantum efficiency and current-voltage measurement system for solar cells.

Building on this foundation, start-up company neonsee was spun out in 2009, which Hannes joined shortly after as a managing director. At the same time, solar technology was maturing into a globally significant energy source, and neonsee soon began supporting research institutions and industrial clients across the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

The company’s primary goal was to enable its clients to perform comprehensive loss analyses based on complex measurement routines at the push of a single button. This required a broad range of measurement methods, integrated smartly utilizing a high degree of automation. Emerging concentrator photovoltaic technology, combined with the automotive industry’s testing requirements for lighting products, sparked the development of highly collimated solar simulators.

After ten years, Hannes refined his business vision and founded Lunovon in 2019 with a clear mission: to support client organizations in mastering the growing complexity of novel multijunction solar cells based on perovskites, III–V semiconductors and other technologies through accurate, fully automated and user-friendly device analysis.
More recently, a collaboration with pv-tools has further strengthened this direction, based on a continuation plan for its since 2008 trusted LOANA solar cell analysis system.