eRALOS3

BOOTCAMP 10 PARTICIPANT

Technology becomes fashion.

eRALOS3 want to bind fashion to technology by producing innovative polymer-based PV cells, characterized by flexibility, lightness and low cost, to be integrated in clothes; these PV cells will be manufactured in order to create various shapes, patterns and words, that we want to call “Solar Writing” (SW), giving an aesthetic value to the garments. eRALOS3 wants to satisfy the energy needs of small portable electronic devices (Cell phones, Mp3 players, PDAs, etc.) in a simple, autonomous and cheap way, using portable photovoltaic (PV) solar cells able to convert sun energy into electricity. This will let us recharge any small portable electronic devices even if we have no land power supply at our disposal and allowing us to go on using them anywhere we are. This idea can create a new and unique final product that can start up a technological apparel wearing trend which may spread and generate a remunerative business in a new market segment: the “Solar Technological Fashion”. eRALOS3 wants to manufacture hybrid solar cells on flexible polymeric substrate. Our cheap, efficient and flexible solar cells would enter potential wide markets including large and small area PV applications. eRALOS3 is proposing a new life concept: people dressing with SWs will start up the “Solar Generation”. The base prototype will be developed in the Institute of Microelectronics and Microsystems — National Research Center (IMM-CNR) laboratories through an intense research activity and an official cooperation agreement.