The structure uses photovoltaic and light polycarbonate material in its 5-foot modules.
Stevens is currently leading efforts in the development of photovoltaic materials based on earth abundant elements.
Electronics such as photovoltaic materials claim 10% of all selenium produced.
MiaSolé produces all layers of photovoltaic material in a continuous sputtering process.
This light induced degradation is the major disadvantage of amorphous silicon as a photovoltaic material.
Unfortunately, to create a significant field inside the photovoltaic material, this external field has to be fairly large, and maintaining it is challenging.
The approach should work with any organic photovoltaic material, so it can be adapted to anything that works better than buckyballs.
In this application a photovoltaic material may be applied to a flexible substrate, often a polymer.
But in this method, the photovoltaic material can be coated directly onto untreated paper.
Many different photovoltaic materials are deposited with various deposition methods on a variety of substrates.