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OPV Manufacturers See Growing Opportunities in the Market

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

In recent years, there has been growing interest in the field of organic photovoltaics (OPV). The ability to produce photovoltaic systems utilizing organic materials has clear benefits in terms of cost and production, and by producing OPV on flexible substrates such as plastic, would permit uses that silicon-based glass solar cells can not. Photo courtesy of Heliatek GmbH. As a relatively new technology, OPV does not have the results in terms of efficiency or...

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