New Energy Technologies to Present at Energy Harvesting and Storage USA 2013 Conference

New Energy Technologies, Inc. has been accepted to present at IDTechEx’s fifth annual Energy Harvesting and Storage USA 2013 conference, the world’s largest conference on energy harvesting and storage applications and technologies. The conference will be held Nov. 20-21, with Masterclass presentations on Nov. 19 and 22, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.

Dr. Scott Hammond, New Energy’s principal scientist, will present an overview of:
• The company’s latest developments of the world’s first-of-its-kind, see-through technology capable of generating electricity on glass and flexible plastics on Nov. 20.
• The market opportunities and technical considerations for semi-transparent organic photovoltaic (ST OPV) devices in the building integrated and building applied PV (BIPV and BAPV) markets, along with discussing technical hurdles that must be addressed to unlock these growing markets on Nov. 22 in one of IDTechEx’s expert-led Masterclasses.

Dr. Hammond’s discussions will focus on organic photovoltaic (OPV) research and the use of transparent contacts that allow increased transparency, and improves power conversion efficiency and flexibility in semitransparent OPV devices. The basis for the research is the combining of transparent contacts with conductive substances and polymers to further enhance product durability and performance.

Conventional photovoltaic PV and OPV devices typically utilize an opaque metal contact or transparent indium tin oxide (ITO), has low or no visible light transmission (transparency), exhibits low power due to high resistance, requires high-vacuum, high temperature processing, and/or has poor flexibility.

The transparent contact technologies incorporating conductive substances and polymers have the additional potential for lower-cost manufacturing, as they are fully solution-processable, allowing for a variety of application techniques, including roll-to-roll (R2R) and sheet-to-sheet (S2S) processing.

Currently under development for eventual commercial deployment in the estimated 85 million commercial buildings and homes in America, SolarWindow technology is the subject of 42 patent filings and is the world’s first-of-its-kind technology capable of generating electricity on see-through glass windows.

New Energy Technologies, Inc. is positioning itself and SolarWindow to becoming the standard for advanced window technology for high performance office buildings and skyscrapers.