InterPhases' core competencies center on its highly skilled technical team with inter-disciplinary capabilities, spanning across science, technology and business. The team offers technical consulting services on state-of-the-art thin film PV technologies, as well as specific low cost technical solutions to accelerate solar power adoption. ​ The company has pioneered ultra simple, low-cost electrochemical methods to replace high-end vacuum methods. It has carved out a distinct niche for unconventional PV innovations based on inexpensive, non-hazardous materials and processes.   InterPhases has won several R&D awards and contracts from the National Science Foundation, California Energy Commission, Department of Defense, Department of Energy and Xcel Energy. The awards have been leveraged into creating alternate, low-cost pathways to make PV an affordable and compelling energy source.