Printed Electronics Gets More Ambitious

In short, the new photovoltaic business is fragmenting as it grows to tens of billions of dollars yearly. Conventional silicon will be around for at least ten years but the many large new market segments that are opening up will be served by the new photovoltaics, and eventually conventional silicon will vanish from the scene. The heavy government subsidies that prop up sales of conventional silicon photovoltaics today will no longer be necessary.