Imagine newsprint speeding through a printing press. That's how researchers at the University of Delaware's Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC) are describing a new technology they have developed for manufacturing flexible solar cells. This advance, they say, has the potential to reduce the costs associated with photovoltaic energy and expand potential applications.
The system allows the manufacture of long sheets of flexible solar cells that also could be encapsulated into a traditional rigid structure. The flexibility, explains IEC scientist Erten Eser, allows the solar cells to conform to different surfaces, "particularly important for roofing applications for building integration, and for airships and balloons."
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