ROCHESTER, N.Y., May 24, 2017 /CNW/ -- Scientists at
Natcore Technology Inc. (TSX-V: NXT; OTCQB: NTCXF) have been
selected to present a technical paper to the 44th IEEE Photovoltaic
Specialists Conference (PVSC-44), the pre-eminent global technical
conference in photovoltaics.
Titled "Multilayer Foil Metallization for All Back Contact
Cells," the paper is co-authored by Dr. David Levy, Natcore's Director of Research &
Technology, and Dr. David Carlson, a
member of Natcore's Science Advisory Board. Dr. Levy will make the
oral presentation.
The presentation will formally introduce the Natcore Foil Cell™
to the PV scientific community. Natcore's foil cell is an
all-back-contact cell that combines a revolutionary laser process
with a novel metallization strategy, thus enabling high-efficiency
cell architectures at low cost. Importantly, it also eliminates the
need for silver, one of the highest-cost components of a
conventional solar cell.
Furthermore, it benefits from the advantages of all-back-contact
structures, particularly a low cell-to-module loss. Whenever
traditional solar cells are assembled into modules, there is a
significant loss of efficiency. These losses, which can range from
6% to 10%, are minimized on modules made with all-back-contact
cells.
Natcore scientists have recently achieved an efficiency of 20.7%
in their demonstration foil cell. Their result has received
independent confirmation at the NanoPower Research Lab of the
Rochester Institute of Technology.
"Although our efficiencies have been approaching that level for
a few months, we didn't want to go to the scientific community
until our result was substantiated by an authoritative outside
source," says Chuck Provini,
Natcore's president and CEO.
"We're pleased that our paper was accepted by IEEE for an oral
presentation," he adds. "Of all the papers presented at the
conference, fewer than one-third of significant technical merit are
selected for oral presentation."
The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers is the
world's largest technical society and is the official conference
sponsor. PVSC will be attended by about 1500 persons in academic
institutions and company laboratories from more than 40 countries
worldwide. It is considered the premier technical conference on
photovoltaic energy conversion and is the longest running
conference on the topic. It will be held from June 25th to 30th at the
Washington Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C. Natcore will present at
11:45 am on Friday, June 30.
Before joining Natcore in 2012, Dr. Levy invented the
atmospheric Spatial Atomic Layer Deposition process (SALD) at
Eastman Kodak, where he spent 20 years. He has been granted
90 patents and has authored 11 peer-reviewed journal articles.
He has been an invited presenter at meetings of the Materials
Research Society and the American Vacuum Society.
Dr. Carlson is a physicist with a worldwide reputation in
photovoltaics and materials science. Until his recent retirement,
he was the chief scientist of BP Solar, for whom he managed future
technology programs and the intellectual property system.
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Contact: Chuck Provini
(585) 286-9180
Info@NatcoreSolar.com
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