The SCS competitiveness cluster, specialist in digital and cybersecurity, awarded its 2019 Trophies in December 2019. Among the winners in the applied research category, the FUN-PV team (a joint research team between the FUnctionnal Nanomaterials team (FUN) from the CINaM laboratory and the Light Ultimate MatErials Nanodevices and PV team (LUMEN-PV) from the IM2NP laboratory) was rewarded for its works carried out in collaboration with the deep tech start-up Dracula Technologies. Work focused on the development of a process for printing organic solar cells for the Internet of Things (IoT), operating both indoor and outdoor. The team has filed two patents, valued by the start-up. It also plans to create a start-up in 2020 to enhance its work on colored organic solar cells.
Flexible organic photovoltaic module printed by inkjet