Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY
- Scope
- Report objective
- Methodology
- List of definitions
Cuting-edge technolo gy developments and drivers
- Developments in thin-film PV materials
- Amorphous and nanocrystalline silicon
- Cadmium telluride
- CIS and CIGS
- Dye-sensitised
- Conducting polymer
- Nanotubes
- Flexible substrates
- Glass, plastic, metal foil
Drivers and challenges
- G overnment incentives
- Utility interest in solar
- Economic downturn
- Energy and cell costs
- G rid parity
- Module production and oversupply
- Conversion efficiencies
- Raw materials
- Competition from wafer-based silicon
- Applications
Flexible and thinfilm PV market by cell type
- Inorganic thin film
- Glass substrate
- Silicon
- CdTe
- CIGS
- GaAs multijunction
- Flexible substrate
- Silicon
- CdTe
- CIGS
- GaAs
- Germanium
- Organic thin film
- Bulk heterojunction
- Organic and fullerenes
- Organic and TiO2
- Dye sensitised
- Stacked cell
Flexible and thinfilm PV market by end use
- Buildings
- Residential
- Commercial
- Industrial
- Building-integrated PV
- Roofing
- Facade
- Architectural glass
- Consumer electronics and chargers
- G rid-connected power generation
- Military and emergency applications
- Textiles and coatings
Flexible and thinfilm PV market by re gion
- Asia-Pacific
- Australia
- China
- India
- Japan
- Korea
- Taiwan
- Europe
- France
- G ermany
- Italy
- Norway
- Spain
- The Netherlands
- UK
- North America
Opportunities for chemical and material supliers
- Absorber layers
- Buffer layers
- Conductive layers
- Conductive polymers
- Contact materials
- Encapsulants and barrier coatings
- Indium, Gallium, Cadmium, Tellurium
- Silicon (amorphous, microcrystalline)
- Substrates (metal, polymer, ceramic, glass)
- Other (e.g. nanotubes, silicon inks, quantum dots)
Tables and figures
- PV family tree
- PV value chain
- Technology transition for photovoltaic efficiencies
- Materials used in flexible and thin-film PV production
- Technology transition for flexible and thinfilm PV materials
- Flexible and thin-film PV processes
- Technology transition for flexible and thinfilm PV processes
- Production cost comparison of flexible and thin-film PV with silicon-based
PV
- Efficiency comparison of flexible and thin-film PV with silicon-based PV
- Lifetime comparison of flexible and thin-film PV with silicon-based PV
- Comparison of flexible and thin-film PV technologies
- Flexible and thin-film PV market forecast, 2009 - 19 (e million)
- PV technology by application
- Photovoltaic sales by application sector
- Photovoltaic production by cell type
- Photovoltaic installations by region
- Conductivities of metals used in photovoltaic devices
- Thin film on glass: cost per square metre of photovoltaic materials
- Solar cell cost per watt by technology
- Power consumption and area of typical electronic devices
- Flexible and thin-film PV market by cell type, 2009 - 19 (MW)
- Flexible and thin-film PV market by cell type, 2009 - 19 (e million)
- Flexible and thin-film PV market by application, 2009 - 19 (MW)
- Flexible and thin-film PV market by application, 2009 - 19 (e million)
- Flexible and thin-film PV market by region, 2009 - 19 (MW)
- Flexible and thin-film PV market by region, 2009 - 19 (e million)
- Flexible and thin-film PV materials market, 2009 - 19 (e million)
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