Featured in Looking forward – 08-2012

Curtain call for Konarka

Organic PV: It breathed life into the concept of low-cost solar for the 21st century, but Konarka failed to bring its Power Plastic to the market. So does this spell the end for flexible organic thin film PV?

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pv magazine

27 Jul 2012

Konarka, the Massachusetts-based producer of PV cells made from organic semiconductors on plastic, filed for bankruptcy in May. Despite its organic PV (OPV) modules having a power conversion efficiency of less than 2.5 percent the company managed to raise, on average, US$18 million a year in funding since it was set up in 2001 by …

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