With energy prices predicted to soar mercilessly over the next year or so, a world first printing technology in the form of solar panels is welcome news.
Fujifilm Dimatix already hinted at the possibility of using its SAMBA print bar for material deposition onto substrates to effectively print materials such as photovoltaic solar panels.
But a company called Nanosolar has gone a step further with a fully operational press capable of printing cell structures up to 1GW a year.
According to the company's chief executive Martin Roscheisen, it's much faster than the current state of the art - up to 20 times and beyond - and cheaper too. A high vacuum production machine would cost 10 times the $1.65m press.
"Our 1GW CIGS coater cost $1.65 million. At the 100 feet-per-minute
speed shown in the video, that’s an astonishing two orders of magnitude
more capital efficient than a high-vacuum process," he said.
He also claimed that the faster it runs, the better the quality.
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