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
About the Author
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