Peel and stick solar panels

For all their promise, solar cells have frustrated scientists in one crucial regard - most are rigid. They must be deployed in stiff and often heavy fixed panels, limiting their applications. So researchers have been trying to get photovoltaics to loosen up. The ideal: flexible, decal-like solar panels that can be peeled off like band-aids and stuck to virtually any surface, from papers to window panes. Now the ideal is real. Stanford researchers have succeeded in developing the world's first peel-and-stick thin-film solar cells. The authors of the Scientific Reports paper - "Peel-and-Stick: Fabricating Thin Film Solar Cell on Universal Substrates" - are Chi Hwan Lee, In Sun Cho and Xiaolin Zheng from Stanford's Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dong Rip Kim from Hanyang University in Seoul, Korea, and Nemeth William and Qi Wang from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Denver, Colorado. Read more here: http://www.energyharvestingjournal.com/articles/peel-and-stick-solar-panels-00005065.asp?userresponse=true&sessionid=1