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  • Printed solar cells are being developed as a versatile and potentially low-cost alternative to conventional silicon cells

    Polyera serves up new ink line for polymer solar cells

    02 February 2012

    US-based Polyera has developed an inverted bulk heterojunction polymer solar cell with a power conversion efficiency of 9.1%

  • Eight19 has trialled a commercial application and invested in production facilities for its printed solar cells. Image: Eight19

    Eight19 launches funding round

    31 January 2012

    UK solar start-up Eight19 has launched a 'Series B' round of funding for £5 million (€5.96 million)

  • Solar cells in OLED displays could boost mobile device lifetime

    24 January 2012

    As OLED displays become more of a mainstream market for the smartphone industry, a group of researchers have developed a way of using its light output to harvest energy

    The thin-film cell would sit behind an OLED display, capturing wasted light

  • Beneq to deliver ALD web coating tool

    23 January 2012

    Atomic layer deposition (ALD), an advanced deposition technique used in R&D and microelectronics fabrication, is demonstrating its suitability for high volume roll-to-roll processing

    Suppliers of flexible films for food packaging are also targeting the plastic electronics markets. Image: Amcor

  • UK organic solar firm commissions new production plant

    18 January 2012

    UK-headquartered Eight19 has commissioned a new production facility at its Cambridge site, which includes a roll-to-roll line for manufacturing its plastic solar cells

    Eight19 is targeting the supply of low-cost organic solar to off-grid markets

  • Tera-Barrier to commercialise nano-based barrier film from 2012

    16 January 2012

    After achieving impressive results with thin-film and organic photovoltaic devices, Tera-Barrier plans to start production of its encapsulation film with a manufacturing partner and ship commercial orders in 2012-13

    Tera-Barrier has designed materials to offer the encapsulation needed by many organic photovoltaic devices

  • Flexible solar is taking off

    12 January 2012

    Flexible photovoltaic (PV) modules are thin and light - and what they lack in efficiency is being offset against constraints inherent in conventional crystalline PV modules. Suppliers of second generation, flexible, thinfilm modules and emerging organic solar cells are targeting the opportunities

    Flexible Solar films are now being evaluated for use in various projects such as BIPV

  • Solar glass process enhanced

    09 January 2012

    US-based New Energy Technologies has been able to produce its latest SolarWindow prototype using a process that can be scaled up more quickly towards commercial production and at faster speeds

    New Energy Technologies is one of several start-ups bringing to market low-cost, high-volume processes for making solar cells and integrating into substrates for applications like energy-harvesting glass for buildings. Image: New Energy Technologies

  • Solarmer organic solar cell efficiency nears 8.5%

    04 January 2012

    US organic photovoltaic developer Solarmer has increased its device efficiency to 8.48%

    Solarmer aims to produce low-cost organic solar on roll-to-roll systems. Image: Solarmer

  • Gold nanodots can increase organic solar efficiency

    03 January 2012

    New research has indicated that adding a layer of gold nanodots to the surface of indium tin oxide could improve the efficiency of organic photovoltaics

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