TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - INORGANIC CHEMISTRY - Preferred Components: The metal is stainless steel, copper, aluminum, tin or steel. The solar cells include a copper-indium-selenide based alloy. The absorber layer includes titania, nanocrystalline titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, copper oxide, zirconium oxide, lanthanum oxide, niobium oxide, tin oxide, indium oxide, indium tin oxide , vanadium oxide, molybdenum oxide, tungsten oxide, strontium oxide, calcium/titanium oxide and other oxides, sodium titanate, potassium niobate, silicon, cadmium selenide, cadmium sulfide, copper sulfide, cadmium telluride, cadmium-tellurium selenide, copper-indium selenide, cadmium oxide, copper iodide, copper thiocyanate and/or a semiconductive material.    TECHNOLOGY FOCUS - POLYMERS - Preferred Components: The foil comprises a layer of butyl rubber adhesive containing silane primer. The pottant layer comprises Tefzel (RTM: Modified ethylene-tetrafluoroethylene fluoropolymer), ethyl vinyl acetate, polyvinyl butyral, ionomer, silicone, thermoplastic polyurethane, thermoplastic polyolefin, tetrafluoroethylene hexafluoropropylene vinylidene, fluorinated ethylene-propylene, saturated rubber, butyl rubber, thermoplastic elastomer, flexibilized epoxy, epoxy, amorphous polyethylene terephthalate, urethane acrylic, acrylic and/or other fluoroelastomers. The moisture barrier comprises butyl rubber, acrylic and silane based adhesive or similar adhesives. The absorber layer includes a conjugated polymer, poly(phenylene) and its derivatives, poly(phenylene vinylene), poly(2-methoxy-5-(2-ethyl-hexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene vinylene, copolymers of poly(para-phenylene vinylene)), poly(thiophene), poly(3-6 octylthiophene-2,5,-diyl), regioregular, poly(3-octylthiophene-2,5,-diyl), regiorandom, poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl), regioregular, poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl), regiorandom, poly(thienylenevinylene), poly(isothianaphthene), 2,2',7,7'tetrakis(N,N-di-p-methoxyphenyl-amine)-9,9'-spirobifluorene, organometallic polymers, polymers containing perylene units, poly(squaraines) and their derivatives, discotic liquid crystals, organic pigments or dyes, a ruthenium-based dye, a liquid iodide/triiodide electrolyte, azo-dyes having azo chromofores (-N=N-) linking aromatic groups, metal-free phthalocyanine, perylenes and its derivatives, copper pthalocyanines, zinc pthalocyanines, naphthalocyanines, squaraines, merocyanines and their respective derivatives, poly(silanes), poly(germinates), 2,9-16 di(pent-3-yl)-anthra(2,1,9-def:6,5,10-d'e'f')diisoquinoline-1,3,8,10-tetrone, 2,9-bis-(1-hexyl-17 hept-1-yl)-anthra(2,1,9-def:6,5,10-d'e'f')diisoquinoline-1,3,8,10-tetrone, pentacene and their derivatives and/or precursors, N-type ladder polymer and/or poly(benzimidazobenzophenanthroline ladder).