28 July 2008

A virtuous spiral of research, development and commercialization is taking shape as intellectual and investment capital flows into companies at the cutting edge of dye-sensitized thin-film and organic PV cell and materials development, as was seen in Part One of this two-part series on organic photovoltaic/solar cells (OPV).

While significant challenges remain and large-scale applications appear relatively far out on the horizon, smaller scale applications, such as organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), are already being built into a variety of electronic products. Industry pioneers, such as G24i, have begun manufacturing their first generation of products, which in G24i's case includes a DSC-powered mobile phone charger and an award-winning "Lighting Africa" portable lamp that marries cutting-edge LED and dye-sensitized thin-film PV technologies.

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