Printed Solar Cells to Come in February 2008

Nowadays solar cells made a lot of fuss and a lot of scientists try to develop them better and better. And now a team from Japan has come to success by creating a flexible cell, thin as a sheet of paper, that’s also low priced, using traditional printing techniques. Regular solar cells are using silicone, that was expensive and couldn’t allow making cells thin, but the researchers from Fujimori Kogyo and Toin University in Yokohama eliminated the use of silicone. The solar cells developed by them are inexpensive and are only .015 inches ( .4mm ) thick, which makes it easier for factories to build them. Currently, the cells are only running at 6% efficiency, but should grow once they start shipping, next year, in February.

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