Solar Printed Silicon Inks Offer Opportunity
Innovalight, Inc. is developing silicon ink-based printed solar cells. It recently raised investments through venture capital and plans to transition to new manufacturing facility in Sunnyvale, California. ...
... "Compared to solar modules in the market today, Innovalight has developed a proprietary technology that utilizes liquid processing of silicon to produce high-efficiency solar cells that have the potential to reduce solar costs by more than 50 percent. " ...
Via Innovalight: Solar Product Development
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NanoMarkets: Market Research Report: "Solar panels created using nanocrystalline silicon - some of them printed with silicon inks - are expected to offer efficiencies higher than any current commercial photovoltaic cells can offer. " NanoMarkets identifies emerging market opportunities in electronics that are created by developments in advanced materials.
Global Solar Energy: CIGS Photovoltiac Solar Technology PDF: "Thin film technologies using several materials systems and novel deposition techniques have been proposed, from printed CIGS using feedstock formulated as ink, to organic or dyesensitized absorbers. "
DayStar Technologies Commercialization Plans: CIGS Photovoltaics: "Through our proprietary Gen-III deposition process, we have reproducibly achieved greater than 10 percent cell efficiencies on large area solar cell devices. This milestone demonstrates a highly scaleable deposition process capable of the performance benchmarks required to most effectively reach successful product commercialization. "