An assessment of market opportunities for novel Organic Solar Cell (OSC) technology

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The laboratory of Prof Timothy Bender (Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto) has recently shown that prototype planar heterojunction organic solar cells (phOSCs) based on boron subphthalocyanine (BsubPc) are stable in the ambient environment for a prolonged period of time. Our laboratory is a world leader in the study and application of this novel class of organic electronic compounds. Our laboratory has the unique ability to perform a complete linear integration of novel synthetic BsubPcs into prototype phOSCs and then not only characterize the phOSCs in the laboratory but also characterize their performance in the ambient environment atop the roof of our building. We have shown the ability not only to make a variety of novel BsubPcs but also a variety of phOSC device configurations. Our recent roof-top study has indicated that BsubPcs applied as electron accepting and light absorbing materials in a planar heterojunction configuration yielded surprisingly stable OSCs in the ambient environment. Due to these results we feel these materials in this device configuration have the potential to become commercially viable. We are therefore applying for an I2I Market Assessment grant to reach out to the field, market space and potential customers in order to hear the 'voice of customer' with regards to the form in which a prototype OSC of this type should take and therefore what application it should target.