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Heliatek Heads to Large-Scale OPV Production

With €80 million in new investments and new projects, Heliatek will expand annual production by one million square meters.

About a decade ago, the field of organic photovoltaics (OPV) looked like one of the most promising opportunities for printed electronics. However, OPV technology never was able to achieve its promise, let alone efficiencies and lifetimes needed by the market, and most of the early technologies went out of business.   Heliatek is the lone exception from this initial group. A 2006 spinoff from the Technical University of Dresden (IAPP) and the University of Ulm, Heliatek has steadily improved th...

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