According to the Nikkei news reports, as a subsidiary of Hon Hai Group, Sharp plans to launch a dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) in the 2018 fiscal year.
According to reports, Sharp has not yet decided whether to produce or outsource new products, which can use indoor low light to generate electricity.
The power generation efficiency of the dye-sensitized photovoltaic cell is twice the conventional silicon photovoltaic cell, and may be a compact design, so that it was suitable for a networked device. Since increasingly competitive market conventional silicon photovoltaic cells, the introduction of a new battery Sharp eager as before sales champion in 2005, Sharp has now dropped out of the top five global PV market.
According to published data, sales of Sharp Smart Home (including photovoltaic cells, IoT communications, health/environment systems business) increased by 15.6% in the previous quarter (April-June 2018) to reach 150.5 billion yen. Operating profit increased by 19.9% to reach 11.8 billion yen.