オーストラリアで太陽電池セルを印刷機で試し刷り!: ソフトエネルギー

オーストラリアで太陽電池セルを印刷機で試し刷り!

　オーストラリアの紙幣は、紙ではなくポリプロピレンでできている。その紙幣を印刷する技術を利用しての太陽電池のためし刷りがこのほど行われた。技術的には肝心の太陽電池の製造技術が確立されるまでにはまだ時間がかかりそうだが、将来、耐久性とかコストの問題が有機太陽電池の分野で解決されれば、ものすごいスピードで太陽電池が印刷できるようになるかもしれない。

プレスリリース / Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation（CSIRO）、19 February 2009
・Powering the future ? solar cells by the metre
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Photo by: CSIRO”） : 同リリースより

" Trials commencing today promise a new era of solar cells that are printed like money.
World leading research from CSIRO’s Future Manufacturing Flagship as part of the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) aims to develop flexible, large area, cost-effective, reel-to-reel printable plastic solar cells.
Victorian Minister for Energy and Resources, Peter Batchelor, announced today the start of printing trials by Securency International, a banknote printing company.
“The production of these film-like solar cells will be literally as easy as printing money,” Mr Batchelor said.
“These solar cells are cutting edge technology and offer advantages over traditional solar technology because of the potential to mass produce the cells cheaply and install them over large areas such as rooftops.
“The technology used for these cells is still in its infancy, but this project aims to speed-up the development of this technology and take it from research to rooftops as quickly as possible.”
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