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After Overcoming Challenges, Organic Photovoltaics Market is Growing

Heliatek, ASCA and Epsihine are among the companies that are finding new opportunities for OPV.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

Early on in the field of printed electronics, many researchers, businesses and investors alike thought that organic photovoltaics (OPV) would be the first application to break into the mainstream. The idea was a good one – printing low-cost solar roll-to-roll would be cost efficient and could be used for generating power for buildings, vehicles and much more. For a variety of reasons, the first wave of OPV did not work out. Hundreds of millions of dollars were poured in, but essentially, usef...

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