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Finding the right home

Organic photovoltaics: For some, the potential of organic PV will never live up to the hype surrounding it. For industry insiders, the technologys learning curve over the last couple of years gives good reason to expect that the tipping point is coming soon. An overview of this innovative business segment.

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pv magazine

02 Aug 2011

There aren’t many bigger endorsements for your work than a Nobel Prize. So in 2000, when the Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded to Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid, and Hideki Shirakawa “for their discovery and development of conductive polymers,” there was a new technology emerging that pundits thought would revolutionize the photovoltaic market. …

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