Polyera achieves world-record organic solar cell performance and enables windows to act as solar panels
A key solar power challenge is being able to develop an efficient organic solar technology that can also be cost-effectively and reliably manufactured at industrial scale.
The latest results from Polyera represent a step in that direction, demonstrating 9.1% power-conversion efficiency (i.e. how much energy from the sun is converted into usable electricity) combined with other very important – but often overlooked – factors that affect a technology’s true commercial viability. An inverted cell architecture, for example, provides a number of commercially-relevant benefits, such as making solar panels easier to manufacture and improving their useful life.
Polyera’s active layer materials can also be deposited using a significantly broader range of film thicknesses without lowering cell efficiency; this broader process window improves yields and further simplifies manufacturing. Polyera’s materials can also be processed at low enough temperatures to be compatible with a wide range of simple printing processes and common, inexpensive plastic substrates like PET or PEN.
Polyera will be launching a series of organic solar cell active-layer inks, to be commercialized under the trade name ActivInk PV.
Visit Polyera at www.polyera.com
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