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EIGHT19 Limited is a UK company with status active founded in 2010 based in East of England.
Updated 06 Jun 2026 16:52
Financial period: 1 Oct 2024 to 30 Sep 2025
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Eight19 develops solar cell technology, designed to be manufacturable at a low cost and high speed.
Eight19 Limited, a new solar energy company, has spun out from Cambridge University to develop and manufacture high performance, low cost plastic solar cells for high-growth volume markets. The company is backed by a £4.5m investment from the Carbon Trust and leading international specialty chemicals company Rhodia. Eight19, so called as it takes 8 minutes and 19 seconds for light to travel from the sun to the earth, will focus its efforts on developing product prototypes utilising techniques for fabricating large scale plastic electronic devices using roll-to-roll processes developed in the CIKC?s 3PV project. The company will continue to be actively engaged with CIKC and its innovative research output through the CIKC ?3PV+? project. The company has been created by a partnership of Professor Sir Richard Friend, Professor Henning Sirringhaus and Professor Neil Greenham with technology development company TTP through the Carbon Trust?s Advanced Photovoltaic Research Accelerator. Solar cells made with semiconducting plastics (also known as organic photovoltaics, or OPV) offer potentially very low cost production enabled by low temperature and high throughput processing typical of plastic films, ease of installation for construction companies and simplified manufacturing integration. The market for organic solar cells has the potential to reach $500 million by 2015 and to grow four fold to $2 billion by 2020 (Nanomarkets, 2009) driven by applications such as building-integrated photovoltaics, and could save up to 900 million tonnes of CO2 by 2050 ? some 1.5 times the UK?s current annual emissions.
In 2012 Eight19 announced the launch of Azuri Technologies Limited to develop its internationally recognised Indigo 'pay-as-you-go' solar technology for off-grid markets. Eight19 will concentrate on development of its printed plastic solar technology and Azuri will focus on expanding the Indigo product family and market reach. In 2012, Eight19 was crowned 'Small Business of the Year' and won the 'Renewable Energy Project of the Year' award at the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards, for its work on the Indigo pay-as-you-go solar system which provides clean and affordable electricity to off-grid rural communities. The company was also awarded the prize for "Best Business Case" at the Investor Forum at the annual LOPE-C Organic Electronics conference in Munich.
1 Jul 2018 to 31 Mar 2019
As illumination level drops (as a result of clouds, or time of day for instance), the power output of silicon photovoltaic cells can drop further than the illumination level drop alone would account for. The aim of the project is to take novel high performance solution processed small molecule organic photovoltaic donor and acceptor materials which have s...
1 Feb 2018 to 31 Jan 2019
The DIRECT project aims to bring together CPIs Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) capabilities and Eight19's Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) platform to deliver an integrated process for barrier protection of OPV devices. The project is a 12 month feasibility study to establish the ground rules for roll to roll ALD barriers for solution processed OPV materials and ...
1 Nov 2017 to 31 Oct 2018
PINSTRIPE is a short project to demonstrate the technical feasibility of a new approach to increasing the conversion efficiency of photovoltaic modules by splitting high energy visible photons into 2 infra-red photons before they are absorbed by the module. By increasing the photon flux absorbed, greater power can be generated.
1 Oct 2017 to 31 Mar 2020
The cost of silicon photovoltaics has fallen dramatically over the last 10 years to around 0.5$ per peak Watt of generating capacity and needs to fall further if grid parity is to be achieved but the efficiency of the best laboratory silicon cells has hardly increased during that period because, at 26% efficient, they are already well optimised and close ...
1 Nov 2015 to 31 Dec 2016
SiFi is a short project to assess the technical and commercial feasibility of a new approach to increasing the conversion efficiency of photovoltaic modules by splitting high energy visible photons into 2 infra-red photons before they are absorbed in the module. The photon splitting process is known as "singlet fission". By increasing the photon flux abso...
1 Oct 2014 to 30 Jun 2015
SHINE is a feasibility project to develop a smart label with simple electronic functionality for packaging applications that is powered by energy harvesting from ambient light using a plastic solar module
1 Dec 2010 to 31 May 2013
The SCOPE project addresses a significant issue in the commercialisation of organic photovoltaic devices, namely the need for low cost, high conductivity, transparent, flexible electrodes that overcome the issues of cost, resistivity and fragility associated with existing technologies such as indium tin oxide (ITO). The project will develop electro-less p...
1 Oct 2010 to 31 Mar 2013
The present state of the art in Plastic Electronics (PE) has been achieved primarily through empirical development. A crucial step to standardise production and address volume markets is to employ standard commercial quality tool sets to design organic processes, devices and products. These tool sets are known as Electronic Design Automation (EDA) softwar...
