Colorado-headquartered Ascent Solar Technologies has entered the Chinese consumer electronics market with its flexible copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) photovoltaics (PV) modules...more
VDL, a diversified industrial group in the Netherlands, has joined the Solliance programme, which is putting together a supply chain to commercialise organic photovoltaic (OPV) production...more
US-based New Energy Technologies has managed to enhance the performance of its small module SolarWindow demonstrators, achieving a two-fold power conversion efficiency...more
Solliance, a cross-border research initiative on thin film photovoltaics (PV) by several partners including Holst Centre, imec and TNO, has developed more environmentally safe organic PV (OPV) cell solvents that are inkjet printable...more
Exeger (previously NLAB), a Swedish developer of dye solar cells (DSC), is building a 20 MW production line, with $20 million (€15.3 million) in investment from a mixture of funding from government and private sources...more
Screen printing and materials scale-up are preparing dye-sensitised solar cells for commercial applications, says Solaronix CEO Toby Meyer...more
Ingo B Hagemann, architect and BIPV consultant, discusses opportunities and challenges for organic solar cells and other third-generation (3rd Gen) photovoltaic technologies in the building and construction industry...more
Researchers at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology have moved towards developing printed electronics, bringing the UAE into the market...more
Karl Leo, president, Plastic Electronics Foundation
US awards for next-generation materials for electronics
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