Photovoltaics presentations at energy and electronics event

IDTechEx’s Energy Harvesting & Storage and Printed Electronics Europe will this year be co-located in Berlin from 1-2 April. The joint event will feature several presentations on the topic of photovoltaics.

Germany company Heliatek will present a session on organic solar cells. The solar film producer recently announced a new world record in transparent organic solar cell efficiency, achieving 7.2% efficiency on solar cells with a 40% light transparency.

Heliatek already holds the world record for non-transparent organic solar cells at 12% efficiency. The company believes that breakthroughs like this one could help transform the building-integrated PV industry.

Transparent solar cell by Heliatek.

UK company G24 Power will speak on the development of dye-sensitised solar cells (DSSCs). The company has recently restarted production of its own DSSCs, as well as starting R&D activities on new products including solid-state flexible cells at its new 89,000 m² factory in South Wales.

In the next few months, it is expected that there will be more integrated designs by G24 Power and its collaborating companies, such as the Leia e-reader, fully powered by photovoltaic cells alone, or even applications in building automation such as smoke detectors, sensors, etc.

G24 Power and Heliatek will be accompanied by companies such as Eight19, DisaSolar and more. For further information on the event, visit http://www.idtechex.com/energy-harvesting-europe/eh.asp and http://www.idtechex.com/printed-electronics-europe/pe.asp