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The production of conventional solar cells is a costly affair. This is one reason that has hindered the popular use of solar energy for day-to-day electricity demands of households and organizations. Another reason is the use of a complex technology for producing solar cells and less enthusiasm among governments to adopt solar technologies. However, all of these could become a thing of past soon. Researchers have now shown that solar cells can be printed on a large scale just like newspapers. Such cells are cheap and can be printed on almost every kind of surfaces.

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MIT Unveils Flexible Solar Cells Printed on Paper

by Timon Singh

We’ve seen several different examples of printable solar cells in the past, however MIT engineers just unveiled a new type of cell that can be printed onto paper or fabric. The flexible photovoltaic cells are not energy intensive to produce and they can be folded over 1,000 times without any loss of performance. The technology was officially published today in the journal Advanced Materials by Professor of Electrical Engineering Vladimir Bulović and several other students.

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