Europe’s nanoelectric research institute IMEC has partnered with Plextronics to create organic material for solar cells.IMEC plans to develop a a new process for high efficiency organic solar cells using Plextronics branded materials .These branded materials have demonstrated efficiencies of nearly 5.9% in tests conducted by NREL.Program director Jef Poortmans, IMEC says “ Plextronics materials look very promising for high-efficiency reproducible organic solar cells;” With their focus on materials, inks, and process technology for organic solar cells, we expect that our work with Plextronics will help accelerate our optimization and development of an industrial large-area process “
IMEC in particular plans to use Plextronics , Plexcore branded materials to develop multi junction organic solar cells of efficiencies close to 10 % .IMEC also anticipates scaling up to commercial manufacturing techniques by the year 2012.
