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Heliatek: Organic Solar Cells Reach 6 Percent Confirmed Efficiency

Fraunhofer ISE certified efficiency for a tandem solar cell using Heliatek’s proprietary tandem cell technology

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

Heliatek GmbH (Dresden/Ulm) developed organic solar cells consisting of so called “small molecules” – organic dyes which are synthesized from hydrocarbons. Those solar cells are characterized by low cost, short energy payback time and inexhaustible availability of raw materials. In excess of low expenses, the customer’s benefits are highly flexible and light-weight modules (0.5 kg/m²), since the future product is going to be manufactured on foil substrates in a continuous vacuum coatin...

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