New ways to catch some rays

By and Roderic Bunn Roderic Bunn2008-09-12T00:00:00

Thin-film PV solar wall at Technium’s research facility in St Asaph, Wales, by Percy Thomas Partnership.

Photovoltaics may generate clean electricity, but they’re expensive and difficult to integrate with a building’s fabric. Will the next generation of PV technologies tackle these problems?

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