Cyanine Technologies activity is focused on the synthesis of innovative organic dyes for DSSC.
The Dye Sensitized Solar Cell module uses organic dyes to generate electricity from light.

Michael Grätzel and Brian O’Regan invented “Dye Sensitized Solar Cells”, also called “Grätzel cells”, in 1991. The first cells were only capable of using light at the Ultraviolet and Blue end of the spectrum. By the turn of the century, advances in technology were able to broaden the frequencies in which these cells were able to respond.

Although the silicon based solar cells are currently more efficient, the dye-sensitized solar cells are considerably cheaper to manufacture. The overall efficiency of solar cells has for a while been unable to get past what was the current peak efficiency of around 11 percent for cells using titanium dioxide.
This increase in efficiency moves dye-sensitized solar cells even closer to reaching the point where they will be able to become a viable option in the area of energy production.

In the future expect to see further gains in the efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells. When these cells become efficient enough to use in the real world producing electricity people will be able to have skylights and windows with a layer of dye-sensitized solar cells, enabling the windows to actually produce energy while being aesthetically pleasing.