Ribes Tech, a spinoff of the Italian Institute of Technology, hasactually developed a roll-to-roll procedure to produce natural photovoltaic modules that it states can be broadened to makeitpossiblefor volume production of PV modules for indoor sensingunits, trackers, and electronic gadgets.
Valerie Thompson
Italian start-up Ribes Tech has established a roll-to-roll (R2R) production procedure for natural photovoltaic (OPV) modules.
The procedure consistsof a slot die coater and screen printing stations. “We have a pilot line that has tested itself. Every layer of the PV cell is transferred through requirement R2R printing strategies,” Francesca Scuratti, supervisor of item advancement at Ribes Tech informed pv publication. “It needs no transparent conductive oxides for bottom electrode, utilizes no uncommon or limited products, and the modules themselves are simple to incorporate into power sub-systems.”
The business is a spinoff of a cooperation inbetween Italian printing professional OMET Group and the Italian Institute of Technology. It has a production capability of 200,000 gadgets a year, based on a system with 2 printing heads and a 30 cm web width.
The procedure allows the production of really thin indoor energy harvesting gadgets developed to be battery replacements or retrofits in a broad variety of low-power electronic gadgets, such as remote sensingunits, clever labels, and tracker gadgets.
Ribes Tech’s modules have 12% power conversion performance inside when incorporated as a element of an electronic gadget, and work effectively in the entire indoor variety, from 5 lux up to 2000 lux, according to Scuratti.
“Now we are looking for financialinvestments to assistance our next scale up stage. We are allset to produce PV modules in high volume, like printing labels,” stated Scuratti, keepinginmind that at complete scale with several printing heads, the business’s devices might print “up to anumberof 10s of millions of photovoltaic cells.” For example, up to 50 million systems of small-sized OPV gadgets mea