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Chih-hung Chang, a professor in the School of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering, said, \u201cThis is very promising and could be an important new technology to add to the solar energy field.\u00a0 Until now no one had been able to create working CIGS solar devices with inkjet technology.\u201d\u00a0 One advantage of this approach, according to Chang, is the dramatic reduction in wasted material.\u00a0 Inkjet technology can be used to create precise patterns with very low waste, unlike the more expensive vapor phase deposition, which wastes most of the material in the process.\u00a0 \u201cSome of the materials we want to work with for the most advanced solar cells, such as indium, are relatively expensive,\u201d Chang said. \u201cIf that\u2019s what you\u2019re using you can\u2019t really afford to waste it, and the inkjet approach almost eliminates the waste.\u201d\u00a0 The researchers are hoping to achieve an efficiency of about 12 percent, the level necessary to 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