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Email from Chuck Provini,
Attached is an article that appeared in EE Web, a very prestigious online technical magazine. The magazine covers a variety of clean energy topics and this article was focused on the solar industry.

Natcore and Eurotron were interviewed for an updated discussion on the advancements in solar technology titled “The Leading Edge of Solar, Revolutionary Solar Cell Technology Delivers High Efficiency at a Low Cost.” It is a good insight into the direction that the solar industry is moving towards and the important role that Natcore, along with its partnership with Eurotron, will play in that transition.
As always, if you have any questions, please let me know.
Best,
Charles R. Provini
President & CEO
Natcore Technology, Inc.
87 Maple Avenue, Red Bank, NJ 07701
732-576-8800, fax [phone]
Email: [e-mail]
www.natcoresolar.comRevolutionary

Solar Cell Technology Delivers High Efficiency at a Low Cost
Posted May 26, 2015 at 7:05 am
Renewable energy technology has been a part of the American energy infrastructure for decades now—taking the form of wind turbines, home-installed solar panels, and even water wheels. As awareness of our negative impact on the Earth’s climate and environment increases, so does the cost of the fuel. Interestingly enough, our dependence on finite fuel resources has not faltered, despite advancements in renewable energy technology like solar.

So why hasn’t solar caught replaced nuclear power plants in the US? Well, for one, solar technology has not yet reached grid parity—the point in which it becomes cheaper than purchasing power from electric grids—which is a crucial achievement in order for the mass adoption of solar technology. However, this is all beginning to change. One company in particular—Natcore Technology—has developed a new method of assembling solar cells that not only boosts efficiency, but lowers the cost of implementation down to a point where we might be seeing a lot more solar panels in the neighborhood. EEWeb spoke with Natcore’s President and CEO, Chuck Provini, about their revolutionary heterojunction cell technology, how it will enable mass adoption of solar panels, and the company’s exciting new partnership with Eurotron, a Dutch solar equipment manufacturing company.

Last year, EEWeb interviewed Dennis Flood of Natcore about their proprietary liquid-phase deposition process that was believed to be the next big thing in terms of mass solar adoption. The announcement of this technology certainly made waves, establishing Natcore as a force in the solar technology industry. However, Provini was excited about the new advancements Natcore has achieved since then: “When Natcore was first starting out, we felt that our most important technology was our liquid phase deposition [LPD], which we thought was our home run.” The technology utilized a room-temperature liquid bath that suspended the particles and spread it out to create a film, which was branded as the company’s “special sauce.” But the secret to success is now taking a different form for Natcore, “We are so far beyond LPD now that we don’t even remember what that was,” Provini jokingly stated.

Natcore’s new technology is their back-contact heterojunction cells, which they believe is the fastest way to achieve 25% efficiency—the number that every solar company is trying to achieve. In essence, Natcore’s technology is allowing solar cells to be made in a low-temperature, ambient pressure process. This eliminates the high temperatures that typically come with antireflective (AR) coatings, which allow the cell to become much more efficient. A typical manufacturing process takes a polysilicon wafer and puts it through a high-temperature step, which ultimately damages it and restricts how efficient the cell can be. “Using our laser process,” Provini explained, “when we do use high temperatures, it is only at a very specific location on the wafer, so we are using specific temperatures for nano-sized dots where they need to be.”

Click here to read the full article in Power Developer Magazine
http://issuu.com/eeweb/docs/05_2015-power_developer_1_pages/53?e=7607911/12992952