And, the creation of that plastic solar cell could change the requirements for the manufacturing of organic printed electronics.

FORBES: New Technique Creates First Plastic Solar Cell

The total thickness of a completely plastic solar cell is in the range of one micrometer, which is 100 times thinner than a human hair.

FORBES: New Technique Creates First Plastic Solar Cell

That plastic solar cell was created through a special program at Georgia Tech called the Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE), which studies the use and development of printed electronics.

FORBES: Scientists Create Recyclable Solar Cells From Trees

Last year in April 2012, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology created the first plastic solar cell (Forbes: New Technique Creates First Plastic Solar Cell) which they hope will help change requirements for manufacturing of organic printed electronics.

FORBES: Scientists Create Recyclable Solar Cells From Trees

The company hopes to be able to supply users with a new, low-cost and robust sort of solar cell, printed onto plastic strips, within two years.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

After all, the concept - creating flexible electronics and assembling them on equally flexible plastic - has been touted since the 1960s, when the first flexible solar cell arrays appeared.

BBC: Bend me, shape me: Flexible phones 'out by 2013'