700647Study, assessment and proof of market potentials and economics of a new hybrid solar cell technology for portable devices and building-integrated photovoltaic applicationsClosedGRD Proof of MarketInnovate UKThe majority of photovoltaic (PV) market is currently based on crystalline silicon, which they suffer from relatively high production cost at large scale due to tedious processing condition, which may escalates its payback time. Silicon based modules currently cost 0.65 £/Watt and have efficiencies less than 20% which is far from industry's targets of 0.03 £/Watt. This calls for the development of new types of PV cells, having the potential to radically diminishing manufacturing costs, through the development of organic, inorganic or hybrid materials systems that can be employed as thin films. Nava technology, spun out from Cambridge University's Physics Department, has developed a unique and patent-pending Nanoscale Inkjet Printing (NIP) technology for Nanostructured hybrid organic-inorganic PSC, which promises a significant enhancement in device lifetime by x4 and a substantial 60% cost reduction through materials engineering along with utilization of scalable and inexpensive synthesis and manufacturing techniques. Its higher efficiency, reaching 21% from 0.5 cm2 devices, combined with its lower cost of both precursors and processing routes as well as improved stability compare to alternative organic PV, will enable far greater applications to become economically viable, e.g. electricity generation from building-integrated PV; its exploitation as a result contributing towards achieving more cost-effective PV systems.