Update
12 Sep 2022
Epishine
Epishine is a Swedish company founded in 2016. The company works on organic PV for indoor wireless electronics. Epishine just announced it has received SEK 25 million (US$2.3 million) from the European Union's LIFE fund.
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18 May 2022
Epishine
Epishine is a Swedish company founded in 2016. The company works on organic PV for indoor wireless electronics. Epishine has recently announced a licensing agreement with the ASCA division of Armor. This profile is based on an interview with the Co-founder and Vice President of Business Development at Epishine, Mattias Josephson.
29 Jan 2021
A Second Chance for Organic Photovoltaics?
Printing solar panels like newsprint using organic semiconductors is the longstanding aspiration, given the obvious benefits of renewable energy and the potential for low-cost, large-area, energy-efficient production.
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23 Jul 2020
Sunew
Sunew is a Brazilian company that manufactures OPV modules using R2R printing techniques. These are installed in multiple locations worldwide, with a focus on building integrated photovoltaics.
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22 Jul 2020
Brilliant Matters
Brilliant Matters is a Canadian company that develops and manufactures organic semiconductors for the printed electronics market. The company offers products and services mainly aimed at the organic photovoltaic (OPV) and organic photodiode (OPD) markets, focusing on purity and reproducibility.
6 Aug 2018
Organic photovoltaic: analysis of technology and commercial progress
Organic photovoltaics were once considered the next generation of photovoltaic technology. They had huge hype because they had a seductive value proposition: R2R printing of high-performance, robust and flexible solar cells over large areas using low-cost materials and low CapEx high-throughput equipment. progress
Background
24 Oct 2017
Merck Group
This profiles provides a brief background on Merck's organic photovoltaic material's business and progress
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8 Sep 2014
Toppan Forms
Toppan Forms' background is in business forms and data print service fields. Since then the company has also developed a strong software solutions/business process offering, in addition to some electronics manufacture including smart cards and NC reader modules, and associated systems and software. The company covers a wide variety of information-based businesses, such as integration of printed matter and electronic documents, information media like RFID and IC, and development of products compatible with printed electronics technologies, including conductive ink.
8 May 2014
Organic Photovoltaics 2013-2023: Technologies, markets, players
IDTechEx's report Organic Photovoltaics 2013-2023: Technologies, Markets, Players analyses the latest developments in this field. This report gives an overview of the greater photovoltaic business landscape, assesses the organic photovoltaic technology at material and component level, and delivers detailed market forecasts.
31 Dec 2013
2013 at a glance - Outlook for 2014
As 2013 comes to an end, IDTechEx analysts summarize the main market trends in some of its core sectors of expertise, giving insight to the events of the past year and how they are expected to influence further developments, market entry for emerging technologies but also the behaviour of incumbents in 2014.
Full profile interview
15 Oct 2013
Belectric
BELECTRIC OPV GmbH is part of the Belectric group which is involved in the development and construction of ground-mounted solar power plants and photovoltaic roof systems. BELECTRIC OPV Develops and manufactures solar cells utilizing the know how on printing technologies for the manufacture of organic solar cells that was developed at Konarka during the 10 years the company remained active
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5 Aug 2013
Genes'Ink
Genes'Ink is a young and small French company synthesizing and formulating silver and ZnO nanoparticle inks. They have a small production chamber. A key ability is their synthesis and formulation know-how, which can be applied to a range of materials.
Full profile interview
16 May 2013
Goss International Americas
Goss International is a global company manufacturing, selling and distributing offset printing presses. They have 2,200+ employees (400 engineers) and have sold 15,000 offset print units since 2000. They are now slowly becoming involved in printed electronics by leveraging their strong R&D capabilities (strong understanding of machine manufacture, printing and inks). To this end, they are developing a transparent conductive films (TFC) consisting of printed metallic grids on a PET substrates.
17 Dec 2012
G24 Innovations has gone into administration
According to recent reports, G24 Innovations, a developer of 3rd generation dye sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) has gone into administration.
6 Dec 2012
Flexible PV: growing more than three-fold in the next 5 years
Although it is often the case that flexible solar panels are assumed to be related to organic photovoltaic technologies, that is not always the case.
Full profile interview: SWOT
1 Dec 2012
Cambrios Technologies Corp