Publication date: 11th March 2026
Organic photovoltaics (OPV) has made rapid progress in single-junction efficiency, but the next bottleneck is not another lab record — it is industrialization. For Epishine, the most relevant near-term market is low-light photovoltaics for indoor energy harvesting, where OPV’s spectral tunability and thin, flexible form factors enable product concepts that are hard to realize with conventional PV.
Industrial transfer of OPV is rarely a simple scale-up. Moving from lab processing to high-throughput coating forces redesign of both device architecture and processing sequence. Layer thickness windows, drying behaviour, and interfacial contact formation change under industrial boundary conditions, and this can introduce new performance losses and stability issues even when the same photoactive materials are used. In practice, manufacturability and stability have to be designed in from the start — not added later. Deconvolution of failure modes in reference devices is already very challenging; with industrial constraints it becomes an even harder nut to crack.
Key enablers are robust transport layers; interfaces that tolerate realistic process variation, and device layouts that are compatible with roll-to-roll manufacturing while maintaining performance and yield. The main challenge is not only reaching high efficiency, but doing so inside a stable, repeatable process window with industrially acceptable materials and workflows.
This talk strives to balance the potential of the organic photovoltaics for IPV applications with the challenges in upscaling new manufacturing technology. I will do my best to share with you in our journey —the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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