Benefits: o Make use of the worlds smallest functional organic solar cells, which measure less than the

e size of a grain of rice, and have been shown to successfully produce electricity in a published peer-reviewed study in theJournal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy of the American Institute of Physics; o Are sprayed on to see-through glass using a novel, patent-pending process presented in AZoNanos (peer-reviewed, Journal of Nanotechnology Online; Dec. 20, 2009), Nanotechnology Thought Leaders series; o Do not require expensive high-temperature or high-vacuum production methods, but rather, can be sprayed on to glass at room temperature; o Generate electricity from both natural and artificial light sources, outperforming todays commercial solar and thin-film technologies by as much as 10-fold; and o Measure less than 1/10th the thickness of thin films (only 1/1000th the thickness of human hair).

SolarWindow technology, which enables see-through windows to generate electricity by spraying their glass surfaces with New Energys electricity-generating coatings the subject of twenty-one (21) patent filings.

Cost factor: screen printing, production costs are much lower than for conventional solar cells and the cost of the materials is also falling Windows that double as solar panels At 170 square centimeters (about 26 square inches), the new module is about the size of a small window. If the technology can be ramped up to a more useful scale, practically any glass window could double as a clean energy generator, with the embedded photovoltaic cell all but invisible. The largest device of its kind produced at NREL, the new module represents a breakthrough in organic photovoltaic cell (OPV) technology according to a statement by Dr. David S. Ginley of NREL, who said that integrating solar technology into window glass represents a promising avenue for OPV deployment. Solar Window Potential Currently, Oxford PVs solar window technology is just producing electricity at a little over 6% efficiency, but models have shown that there is potential to get that up to about 20%. And, again, the main advantages are the overall lower costs and the widespread use of glass as a building material. Figures from architects show that 60 per cent of many modern commercial buildings surface area is glass, Arthur noted. We have modelled the effect of the solar glass on a 700 foot skyscraper in Texas and it revealed that we could generate up to 5.3MWh a day. Thats enough to power 52,000 iPads. If you combined the solar glass with the installation of LED lighting in the building you could

power all your lights, as well as DC powered devices such as laptops. six different types of Solar Windows for different situations:

Commercial- A flat glass window for installation in commercial buildings Structural Glass- Structural glass walls and curtains for tall structures Architectural Glass- Textured and decorative interior glass walls, room dividers, etc. Residential- Window glass for installation in residential homes Flex- Flexible films that can be applied to existing windows BIPV- Building product components associated with buildingintegrated-photovoltaic(BIPV) applications in homes, buildings, and office towers. FORMATION OF SOLAR WINDOW The spray is used over a glass consists of organic materials that act as semiconductors that are both chemically and organically flexible, meaning that they can function to create electricity without impairing the transparency of the window. This process creates as much as 10 times the amount of energy as todays commercial solar and thin-film technologies