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Breakthrough flexible solar panels are so thin they can be printed on any surface – even backpacks

Scientists at Oxford University Physics Department have developed a groundbreaking solar-power innovation. They have miniaturized solar panels that are thin enough to print on any object while...

Forward-looking: Oxford University researchers have developed a flexible perovskite material about 100 times thinner than a human hair that can generate solar electricity just as efficiently as traditional silicon panels. Solar and wind power generation also hit record highs last year, providing 12 percent of global electricity, so the principle of economies of scale could also be at play here. Their work already spun off a UK company, Oxford PV, which opened the world's first perovskite-on-silicon solar manufacturing line in Germany.

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