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Dr. Simon Bransfield-Garth has been selected by Eight19, an organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology developer, as the company’s first chief executive officer. His appointment comes after a September 2010, US$7.4 million investment from the Carbon Trust and French chemical company Rhodia for the commercialization of OPV technology that will be created at Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory; to which Eight19 is closely associated.
Heliatek has placed an order for two Dr. Schenk SolarInspect roll-to-roll metrology systems that will be placed in its organic photovoltaics (OPV) line located at the company’s Dresden, Germany, facility. Delivery of the two systems is expected to occur midway through this year.
Over the past few years, Fraunhofer ISE has been working on the development of dye solar cells, with an ultimate goal of being able to fully integrate the solar modules into the face of a building. One of the main challenges the researchers have faced is bringing the technology out of the lab and putting it into the industrial field. Lately, Fraunhofer ISE researchers have started to overcome this dilemma, specifically with the production of a 60 x 100cm² dye solar cell module on a continuous substrate material.
DuPont Microcircuit Materials (MCM) and Holst Centre have formed a partnership to focus on advancing the technology of printed electronics, specifically in the areas of printed structures on flexible substrates, which are used in a variety of markets including flexible display, RFID, lighting, biomedical and organic photovoltaics (OPV).
DyeTec Solar has secured a US$1 million Ohio Third Frontier Commission grant to help it develop technology for the mass manufacture of glass-based BIPV, BAPV and AIPV products.
Organic PV and OLED materials and process developer Plextronics has achieved ISO 14001:2004 certification. The company was awarded this designation by ABS-QE for its compliance with environmental process standards and effective environmental management systems. Those standards and systems are used in the production and other operations related to conductive polymers and inks for use in printed electronic applications.
Kisco has agreed to become Tera-Barrier Films’ exclusive distributor in the Asia-Pacific region after making a strategic investment in the Singapore-based company. Kisco made the investment during Tera’s Series A investment round and its funding will help Tera’s attempts to bring its moisture-resistant films for solar cells to market.
SolarPrint has formally introduced its dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) technology, which is combined with wireless sensors to yield better efficiencies on commercial applications. Per the company, its new DSSC technology imitates photosynthesis and has the ability to collect ambient or diffused light, despite the incident angle, which allows for a higher power output.
NanoMarkets has published a new report claiming that novel encapsulation and substrate materials are the key to the long-term survival of organic photovoltaics (OPV) and dye-sensitized cell (DSC) photovoltaics. The report, titled ‘Encapsulation and Flexible Substrates for Organic and Dye-Sensitized Photovoltaics’, predicts that a US$1.3 billion encapsulation and substrate market will be possible by 2017, if manufacturers of these materials can offer products that will facilitate use of OPV and DSC technology into the building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) sector.
CSIRO and Dyesol have completed the first stage of their joint project developing higher performance dyes for dye solar cells (DSC). The first six months of the programme has seen Dyesol build a research-scale assembly and testing facility at CSIRO’s Newcastle-based centre, in south-east Australia.
