14 June 2012

Dye Sensitized Solar Cells in the iPad

DSCs have become these days a commercial product in the mainstream market in a keyboard developed by Logitech and G24i, the leading company in flexible DSC fabrication in Wales (UK). In the Logitec website it can be seen this innovative Solar Keyboard Folio that integrates in the back side two DSC small modules.

This new product takes advantage of the ability of the DSCs to capture more efficiently the energy from indoor lighting with respect to other photovoltaic technologies. As stated in the product description "The built-in Bluetooth® keyboard is powered by light—low light and lamp light, indoors and out. Fully powered, you can type on it for two years—even in complete darkness".
 After 21 years of intense research since the publication of the nature paper by Grätzel and O'Regan reporting the first DSC, this technology has now arrived successfully to the market. Congratulations to the G24i team for this achievement and all the efforts dedicated to this technology.