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Indoor performance Researchers in Scotland have demonstrated a plastic solar panel that works indoors – while performing high-speed optical data communication. The research – led by Professor Harald Haas from


Strathclyde University, and Ifor Samuel and Graham Turnbull at St Andrews University – takes a step towards self-powered data-connected devices. The team showed that organic photovoltaics (OPVs) – solar cells made from plastics – are suitable for high-speed optical data receivers that can also harvest power. An optimised combination of organic semiconductor materials created stable OPVs that converted indoor lighting into electricity. “OPVs offer an excellent platform for indoor power harvesting for mobile devices,” said Turn- bull. “Their advantage over silicon is that the materials can be designed to achieve maximum quantum efficiency for typical LED lighting wave- lengths.” OPVs are easy to make, allowing mass integra- tion into internet-connected devices, said Haas. Compared to inorganic devices, they could be much cheaper – which could allow their large-scale commercial adoption.


Self-assembly Technology that was used to improve the perfor- mance of silicon and perovskite solar cells has now been applied to organic solar cells. Researchers at Kaunas University of Technology


(KTU) in Lithuania – who earlier a technique called self-assembling molecular-thin layer (SAM) – have now applied it to OPVs, in collaboration with scientists from KAUST in Saudi Arabia. “We made some modifications to the material used in SAM formation to tailor it for organic solar elements,” said Artiom Magomedov, who co-devel- oped the technique. The technology – which he says is cheap,


efficient and versatile – involves dipping the surface into a solution, which forms a molecule-thick semiconductor layer. As the materials have already been commercial- ised – and are freely – the discovery continues to advance the development of photovoltaic tech- nologies, said the researchers. The technology was first applied to OPVs by the


group of researchers headed by Thomas Antho- poulos at KAUST, which led to further cooperation. “We sent synthesised materials by post, and our


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