Business trend
Mitsubishi Chemical
will construct a plant for the pilot production of thin and bendable solar
batteries with an investment of 1-2 billion yen. The solar battery to produce
is the next-generation solar battery called organic thin film. The company will
start to produce the samples because it opened up the prospect for commercial
application technically. The plant is scheduled for completion within the year,
and production will start early 2013.
The organic thin
film solar battery has low generation efficiency than currently popular
silicone solar battery, but it can be produced by applying chemical products to
glass and film. In addition, it can be easily mass produced to reduce the price
of a generation system considerably. Because it is easily processable, it
can be integrated into housing wall, window glass, and mobile phone. The
company positions the thin and bendable solar battery as one of its promising
products and exerts lots of energy on the development. It plans to increase the
annual production of this product to more than 10 billion yen in 2015.
TDK's thin and flexible solar battery
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