Konaraka thin film coated solar cells printed by Inkjet Printers

By Vladan On March 9, 2008 · 2 Comments

Thist time it’s for good. I beleive that this technology will bring the solar energy to the masses. Let’s have a look. I already talked about Nanosolar’s flexible solar panels which can lower the producing costs. But few days ago Konaraka announced succesfull testing a inkjet printing technology to produce a solar panels.

Konaraka thin film coated photovoltaic cells

“Inkjet printing is considered very promising because the polymer devices can be fabricated very easily because of the compatibility with various substrates and it does not require additional patterning.”

“Demonstrating the use of inkjet printing technology as a fabrication tool for highly efficient solar cells and sensors with small area requirements is a major milestone,” commented Rick Hess, president and CEO at Konarka. “This essential breakthrough in the field of printed solar cells positions Konarka as an emerging leader in printed photovoltaics.”

Because to produce the panels is cheap and the film flexible, applications are varied.

“We constantly receive calls from innovators who have read about the cells and propose unique—sometimes wild and crazy—concepts for the technology.”

Source: Popular Mechanics

2 Responses to Konaraka thin film coated solar cells printed by Inkjet Printers

Best Solar Energy : Konaraka is industrializing their production of flexible solar cells says:

October 11, 2008 at 06:02

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David says:

June 30, 2008 at 14:22

Hello, I can not find a simplex way to search if these new products are for sale. Are these for sale yet? Can we get on a list that will tell us when these are for sale, and the costs? When my computer goes on the home page, it shuts off the computer. I do not know if this is just today, so we will check again tomorrow.

Thanks David