Printed Photovoltaics: Market Opportunities for the Materials and PV Industry - 2009 to 2016

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

• E.1 Introduction
  • E.1.1 Evolution of Printing in the Photovoltaics Industry
• E.2 Opportunities by PV Technologies
  • E.2.1 Silicon
  • E.2.2 CIGS and CdTe
  • E.2.3 OPV and DSC
• E.3 Implications for the Printing Equipment Industry
  • E.3.1 Selling Machinery for R2R and Flexibility
  • E.3.2 Improving Printed PV
  • E.3.3 Beyond Proprietariness- “Off-the-Shelf” Equipment?
• E.4 Summary of Eight-Year Market Forecasts for Printed PV

Chapter One: Introduction

• 1.1 Background to This Report
  • 1.1.1 Where Printing Fits in the PV Marketplace
  • 1.1.2 Printing as Way to Make TFPV and OPV/DSC Competitive with c-Si PV
  • 1.1.3 Printing and Electrodes for Thin-Film Photovoltaics
• 1.2 Objectives and Scope of this Report
• 1.3 Methodology of this Report
• 1.4 Plan of this Report

Chapter Two: Opportunities for Printed Silicon Photovoltaics

• 2.1 Background
  • 2.1.1 Crystalline and Thin-Film Silicon Photovoltaics
  • 2.1.2 The Role of Printing in Silicon Photovoltaics
  • 2.1.3 Silicon Inks and PV: Innovalight
  • 2.1.4 Silicon Inks and PV: Solexant
  • 2.1.5 Transfer Printing and PV: Semprius
• 2.2 Printing Electrodes in Silicon-Based Photovoltaics
  • 2.2.1 Thick-film Silver for c-Si PV Electrodes
  • 2.2.2 Printed Electrodes for a-Si PV
  • 2.2.3 Printed PV Electrodes Using Nanomaterials
• 2.3 Key Points in this Chapter

Chapter Three: Opportunities for Printed CdTe and CIGS

• 3.1 Introduction
• 3.2 CdTe Photovoltaics
  • 3.2.1 Background
  • 3.2.2 Is There Printing in CdTe' s Future?
• 3.3 Printed CIGS
  • 3.3.1 Background
  • 3.3.2 Printing and CIGS Photovoltaics
• 3.4 Printed Electrodes for CdTe and CIGS
  • 3.4.1 Front Electrodes
  • 3.4.2 Nanomaterials and Alternative Approaches to Electrodes
• 3.5 Key Points in this Chapter

Chapter Four: Opportunities for Printed Organic PV and Dye Sensitized Cells

• 4.1 Background: OPV and DSC
  • 4.1.1 Screen Printing and OPV/DSC
  • 4.1.2 Inkjet and OPV/DSC
  • 4.1.3 Other Printing Approaches
• 4.2 Printing and OPV
  • 4.2.1 OPV Architecture
  • 4.2.2 Role of Printing in OPV Production
  • 4.2.3 Konarka
  • 4.2.4 Plextronics
• 4.3 Printing and DSC Photovoltaics
  • 4.3.1 DSC Architecture
  • 4.3.2 Printing DSC Photoactive Materials
  • 4.3.3 G24 Innovations
  • 4.3.4 Dyesol
• 4.4 Printed Electrodes for OPV and DSC
  • 4.4.1 Printing OPV Electrodes
  • 4.4.2 Printing DSC Electrodes
• 4.5 Key Points in this Chapter

Chapter Five: Eight-Year Forecasts of Printed Photovoltaics

• 5.1 Forecasting Methodology
  • 5.1.1 What We are Forecasting
  • 5.1.2 Forecasting Uncertainties
  • 5.1.3 Data Sources
  • 5.1.4 Alternative Scenarios and Other Factors Taken Into Consideration
• 5.2 Forecasts of Printed Silicon-Based Photovoltaics
• 5.3 Forecasts of Printed CdTe and CIGS Photovoltaics
• 5.4 Forecasts of Printed DSC and OPV
• 5.5 Summary of Forecasts for Printed Photovoltaics

Acronyms and Abbreviations Used in this Report

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List of Exhibits

• Exhibit E-1: Comparison of Common Printing Processes
• Exhibit E-2: Organic Solar Cell Manufacturing
• Exhibit E-3: Printed PV Markets: Total Market ($ Millions)
• Exhibit 3-1: Manufacturing Approaches Adopted by CIGS Solar Panel Firms
• Exhibit 4-1: Prototypical OPV Structure and Materials
• Exhibit 4-2: Konarka' s OPV-based Material Targets for 2010
• Exhibit 4-3: DSC Structure and Materials
• Exhibit 4-4: Dyesol DSC products
• Exhibit 4-5: Agfa' s Orgacon Line
• Exhibit 4-6: H.C. Starck PEDOT: PSS Materials
• Exhibit 5-1: Printed PV Markets: Silicon
• Exhibit 5-2: Printed PV Markets: CdTe and CIGS
• Exhibit 5-3: Printed PV Markets: DSCs
• Exhibit 5-4: Printed PV Markets: OPV
• Exhibit 5-5: Printed PV Markets: Total Market