Article by Thom Calandra after New Orleans Investment Conference.
Natcore Technology: Thought we would summarize David Levy‘s presentation at the lead researcher’s Natcore Tech (NXT in Canada).
Chuck Provini, former banker, former military USA, former baseball player, current fisher of fish, a chef, like me, and current CEO of Natcore, jags in with this to help. It is all word for word on Natcore, a solar cell technology developer that looks to DISRUPT, or recreate, the way the world makes solar cells.
I quote Chuck:
“We currently are working with two entities that are testing and optimizing our black silicon application. The first is CETC, which is one of the largest equipment and cell manufacturers in China. Their website boasts an 80% market share throughout China. They are the company that took our black silicon wafers and put them through their manufacturing line to insure that our technology is compatible with traditional manufacturing and not just a science project.”
I quote again:
“This is the company that was very surprised and pleased that our lifetime measurements were superior to their lifetime measurements with some of their better cells. A solar wafer is often characterized by a property called the carrier lifetime, or lifetime for short. When light strikes a solar cell, it generates two types of charge carriers: a negatively charged electron and a positively charged hole. These carriers are the source of the current that is generated by the solar cell. However, defects, mainly at the surfaces of the solar cell, can cause the carriers to recombine with each other instead of leading to the generation of useful current. The lifetime is a measure of how long the charge carriers can “live” before this undesirable recombination occurs. All things being equal, longer lifetimes lead to more efficient cells.”
And Chuck:
“Secondly, we are working with Fraunhofer in Germany, again to optimize our black silicon. We are very protective of our IP obviously and although we work with the Chinese, we don’t necessarily disclose everything to them. Fraunhofer on the other hand is helping us develop a complete package that could be delivered to manufacturers without disclosing the first important steps of the application. “
TCR family, I believe Natcore might have a line into fresh companies and perhaps nations such as the Philippines that want to become solar cell makers, solar harvesters, solar wholesalers, maybe even solely solar. If so. to paraphrase David Levy and Chuck Provini: those fresh factories — one hopes, OK so I hope — one or two is on Fiji, or Easter Island — need not retool and replace obsolete equipment; they instead will license Natcore technology for patent protected methodology, parts and chemicals.
– Thom Calandra www.thomcalandra.com
