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FUJIFILM Dimatix Technology Used to Pioneer Inkjet Fabrication of Highly Efficient Solar Cells

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World, Coatings World and Ink World Magazine

FUJIFILM Dimatix announced that its cartridge-based Dimatix Materials Printer (DMP) has been used in the world’s first known demonstration of inkjet technology for manufacturing photovoltaic solar cells.

The use of inkjet technology to fabricate the highly efficient solar energy cells has been called a “breakthrough” by Konarka Technologies, Inc. of Lowell, MA, which innovated the development and commercialization of Power Plastic, a material that converts light to energy. Researchers from Konarka Technologies published the results of using FUJIFILM Dimatix inkjet technology as a fabrication tool for the controlled deposition of its photovoltaic material in the journal, Advanced Materials (Volume 19, Issue 22, Pages 3973-3978).

According to the company, the demonstration confirms that organic solar cells can be processed with printing technologies with little or no loss compared to “clean room” semiconductor technologies such as spin coating. In addition, inkjet technology is very promising for fabricating photovoltaics because it is compatible with various substrates and it does not require additional patterning.

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