Flexible and printed photovoltaics for integration applications

Emerging and printed photovoltaics (Emerging PV) technologies have made great advances in the past few years. Based on synthetic semiconductor that can be processed out of solution at low temperatures organic solar cells have achieved light conversion efficiencies of more than 20%, while perovskites have even reached more than 26%.
Emerging PV have an outstanding potential for integration with other applications, due to the fact that they ca be printed at low temperatures on flexible light-weight substrates, but also directly on many surfaces that have a 3D-curvature.
Due to this these Emerging are particularly suited for the integration into surfaces for energy generation at large and small scale. Particularly promising are applications for agrivoltaics or building integrated photovoltaics, but in the area of internet of things applications the technologies are an interesting alternative to batteries.
The presentation will give an update on the technology, materials, applications, markets and cooperation for Emerging PV technologies.

Presentation language: ENG