Research firm IMEC, along with its 16 partner companies, has begun work on a new €12 million project to develop mulitjunction organic photovoltaic cells.
The new project aims to improve efficiency, lifetime and cost. The partners are aiming to produce 1cm x 1cm cells with a conversion efficienty of 12 percent, and 100cm x 100cm cells with an efficiency of 9 percent, both of which will be routinely achieved. The project is also aiming for a lifetime of 20 years for modules on glass, and 10 years for those on foil, reports optics.org. The work will focus on tandem, or multi-junction cells with either two or three terminals
The project, named X10D, is expected to last three years, ending in September 2014.
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IMEC kicks off €11.9M organic PV project
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