New Energy Demonstrates Versatility of SolarWindow Electricity-Generating Coatings

New Energy Technologies, Inc. announced that it has achieved compatibility of the SolarWindow architecture with a variety of active layer electricity-generating coatings. In organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, the active layer plays a critical role in determining a number of the key properties of the device, including color, amount of visible light transmission (VLT), wavelength response and power production.

“The compatibility of SolarWindow with a variety of active layer materials ensures we can give building engineers, architects and end-users alike the flexibility to choose the color and power output that meets building power offsetting requirements”, said John Conklin, president and CEO of New Energy Technologies, Inc. “These choices are critical to ensuring market adoption, as every building is unique, with different aesthetic characteristics.”

The device architecture fabrication process for SolarWindow coatings remains unchanged, thus allowing a single fabrication line to produce a variety of active layers and color options for applications on window, plastic and other substrate products. Combined with the low-temperature, high-throughput, solution-based fabrication techniques used in SolarWindow, this enables the company to remain focused on low-cost fabrication processes for a wide range of products.

The compatibility of SolarWindow with a variety of active layer materials provides the company a path for future development of additional products and discoveries.

“The performance of OPV devices and materials has been rapidly increasing over the last decade. By demonstrating compatibility of SolarWindow™ with a variety of active layer materials, we have the opportunity to use the electricity-generating device architecture with the new, higher performance OPV materials and new developments in the future,” said Dr. Scott Hammond, principal scientist of New Energy Technologies, Inc.

New Energy Technologies is preparing to unveil its next-generation, high performance SolarWindow prototypes with never-before-released photos and multi-media content within the first quarter, 2014.