There are huge materials opportunities in emerging photovoltaics, which I discuss in my latest short presentation (9mins in length) sharing research from my new IDTechEx report, "Materials Opportunities in Emerging Photovoltaics 2020-2040". For report information, please visit: www.IDTechEx.com/MaterialsPV

Materials Opportunities in Emerging Photovoltaics 2020-2040
CIGS, GaAs, lll-V compound, perovskite, OPV, CdTe, conductor, barrier, TCO, ITO, paint, transparent, flexible
By Dr Peter Harrop, Dr Khasha Ghaffarzadeh and Dr Xiaoxi He
"Nearly $40bn in 2040 sales of advanced photovoltaics beyond silicon await"

New IDTechEx report, "Materials Opportunities in Emerging Photovoltaics 2020-2040" is based on interviews by multi-lingual, PhD level IDTechEx analysts across the world and 20 years tracking the research and applications. Nearly $40 billion dollars envisaged in 2040 without colliding with commoditised silicon-in-glass "power station" business. Much premium-pricing of specialist materials.

See why profit from emerging PV will be disproportionately high - up to half the profit from all PV in 2040. Learn why over $10,000/W is currently paid for record 30% efficient lll-V compound PV in a designer watch, as an array on a satellite or surface of a high-altitude drone and lll-V is the basis of Toyota's solar car development. Tripled-efficiency indoor "lll-V" PV is newly on sale. Organic PV has jumped in efficiency, adding other uniques for other segments. Understand how copper-indium-gallium-diselenide PV created $2 billion yearly sales in only ten years. Further stellar growth powered by what improved materials?

Most emerging PV is thin film, flexible and some will be stretchable materials. Tightly-rollable PV in your mobile phone, aircraft skin, billions of Internet of Things nodes? Hundreds of millions more building facades need lightweight PV. What three technologies for PV paint? Retrofit on windows, boats, buses?

Whisper it quietly, but with silicon near its theoretical limits and taking massive areas of real estate - often prime agricultural land and lakes - emerging PV will eventually compete with some "power station" silicon by affordably providing the power in half the area and therefore being much more widely deployable and environmentally acceptable but this report is mainly about the huge opportunities in the run up to that.

The 206 page IDTechEx report, "Materials Opportunities in Emerging Photovoltaics" has executive summary and conclusions sufficient for busy people. Absorb 18 primary conclusions, 2020-2040 forecasts, roadmaps, price sensitivity, learning curves projected forward, gaps in the market, the application hierarchy. The introduction reveals the amazing virtuosity of PV already, important parameters, SOFT report, PV architectures, efficiency trends. New infograms compare PV options beyond silicon, production readiness, 13 examples of new formats/ locations, progress to user-customised PV materials, PV combinations.

For more information on this report, please visit www.IDTechEx.com/MaterialsPV or for the full portfolio of research available from IDTechEx please visit www.IDTechEx.com/research.