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Solar cell silicon printing boosts efficiency




Solar cell manufacturing gets a boost through cell efficiency and reduction in raw material usage.  …

…   “This combination of higher efficiency and reduced material expense is projected to lower manufacturing cost by over 3 cents-per-watt and deliver a return on investment in as little as 8 months.  Esatto Technology is a high precision, multi-step printing capability for Applied's market-leading Baccini back-end solar cell processing systems.

This production-proven screen printing technology is used to fabricate advanced contact structures in crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar photovoltaic (PV) cells.”   …

Via Applied Materials: Manufacture Higher Efficiency, Lower Cost Solar Cells.

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Posted by Green Tech on May 6, 2010 12:01 PM | |





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