Flexible Electronics News

FlexTech Alliance Funded Project with Solarmer Energy Yields High Efficiency, Low Cost OPV Cells and Modules

Potential of OPV to cut energy costs to $1 per watt enables technology to be competitive with fossil fuels

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

FlexTech Alliance, focused on developing the flexible, printed electronics industry supply chain, announced the completion of a multi-year project with Solarmer Energy, Inc. The objective of the project was to develop high performance polymers for organic photovoltaic cells (OPV). Polymer solar cells offer many advantages over traditional photovoltaic cells, such as low weight, flexibility and low cost fabrication in a variety of sizes. Target applications are widespread and unique, includin...

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