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Flexible organic photovoltaic panel.

LONDON – Heliatek GmbH, a 2006 startup company pioneering the development and manufacture of flexible, organic photovoltaic cells, is about to begin production of the first such products at its Dresden factory.

"We are finishing the manufacturing line; we will be in production in the next few weeks," Thibaud Le Seguillon, CEO of Heliatek, told EE Times in a phone interview.

The Heliatek organic photovoltaic (OPV) uses small molecule organics applied roll-to-roll but using vacuum processes. In this regards it differs to some alternative OPV technologies that use printing of long-chain polymers.

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