Screen-printed solar cells

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The solar module converts sunlight into electricity. Fraunhofer ISE
The solar module converts sunlight into electricity. © Fraunhofer ISE

Members of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE are traveling to Tokyo with bulky luggage these days. Their destination is Nanotech 2008, the world’s largest trade fair for nanotechnology. Their solar module, which they will be presenting in the BMBF marketing campaign ‘Nanotech Germany’, is the size and shape of a door: two meters high and sixty centimeters wide.


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