Quantum Materials Corp. (fka QTMM)

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Bob Glass posted this on Scribd.com on May 11 2010
It is an update of the Solterra Profile Sheet with
lots of new info. Here is the link-
Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. Business Summary

Solterra Renewable Technologies, Inc. Business Summary:
• Our mission is to become the leading producer of third generation photovoltaic cells (solar cells) through the use of Quantum Dots and to deliver cost–efficient solar electricity.
• Solterra’s strategy is to produce semiconductor quantum dots at
dramatic cost savings and increased volumes and integrate these into high-production, low-cost printable solar cells to deliver levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) of less than $0.12 / kW-h. The quantum dots and solar cells will be produced at owned facilities and through third party regional license agreements and distributed through existing supply chains and integrators.
Customer Problem:
• Due to high cell manufacturing cost and limited conversion
efficiencies, solar electricity is currently produced at much higher cost than conventional sources.
• Achieving “grid-parity” or competitive LCOE with low cost solar
allows consumers to make an easy choice over economically and
ecologically burdening energy sources such as coal and oil.
Government mandates to achieve high percentages of electric use with renewable energy can be met with the ability of solar electricity to be broadly distributed and generated.
Product/Services:
• Solterra's process does NOT require costly silicon or slow,
cumbersome vacuum processing or sputtering methods, and as a result will be creating a new paradigm in the industry. Solterra uses its robust IP portfolio in third generation photovoltaic materials, including licensed technology for the quantum dots from Rice University and solar cell processing technology from the University of Arizona and Arizona State University to produce low cost solar power to compete with any and all power sources available today.
• Separate for its quantum dot solar technology, Solterra also is
marketing the low cost, high quality quantum dots for other electronic and biomedical applications. These quantum dots can be produced in larger scaled quantities, have unique shape characteristics and will address a tremendous need for engineered nanomaterials for burgeoning uses in a variety of fields.
Target Market:
• Global industry revenues were $15.6 Billion in 2006, up 20% over
the prior year and are projected to exceed $60 Billion by 2016. Total
World annual electricity consumption is approximately 16,000 billion
kilowatt-hours' with the U.S consuming approximately 4,000 billion
kWh’s. Current solar production is significantly less than 1% of this total. Worldwide government mandates to greatly increase renewable electricity contribution to total consumption will continue to drive demand.
Customers:
• Due to our ability to produce large volumes of printed solar cells, our initial customers will be large global commercial users and utilities.
Sales/Marketing Strategy:
• Solterra will use an in house sales team to penetrate the US and
global markets. There are two segments that will be handled by the
sales team:
A. Quantum Dot sales:
Dedicated to the sale of Quantum Dots to the global research
communities, to enable continued affordable research and
development of quantum dot based products for bio-medical assays,
printed displays, LED applications, lasers and photonic devices,
computer memory and storage devices
B. Solar Sales:
Distribute printed quantum dot solar cells to the solar industry
integrators. License the use of the Solterra photo voltaic production technology to regional solar cell producers
There will be several licenses available from Solterra. Licenses will be developed for each application and from that point, custom designed to provide for the needs of any one organization. License descriptions will vary depending on Licensees specific needs as related to locale etc.
Business Model:
• Direct sales of quantum dots for non-solar applications will be made to provide cash flow to the company for ongoing operations and expansion. The net cost to manufacture the quantum dots is
significantly less than other quantum dot manufacturers and current prices are approximately $1000 to $5000 per gram. Volume targets to support solar cell production and quantum dot direct sales are 1,000 to 10s of thousands of kilograms per year.
• Direct sales of solar cells to integrators is expected to generate significant additional revenue at high volumes (approaching 1Gigawatt production within 24 months) and approximate manufacturing cost of $1/W.
• Licensing ongoing technology for the production of quantum dot
solar cells to interested and established third parties under regional license agreements.+
Competitors:
• The ten largest competitors, including BP Solar, Kyocera, Sharp,
Shell Solar and Q Cells all manufacture silicon based solar cells. The manufactured price per watt is expected to remain over $3/W for the next 5 to 10 years. Additionally, capital costs to deploy silicon solar cell manufacturing in the 100-200MW per year range remain exorbitant at $100M+. Although stated earlier, these ten largest producers still only have less than 1% of the renewable energies market, and much less than this of the total electricity consumer market. There is much room for expansion if the cost is competitive to conventional energy sources.
Competitive Advantage:
• Solterra not only expects to significantly lower the manufactured cost to well under $1/W, but also to increase collection efficiencies past the 15-16% practical limit of silicon based cells, both leading to much lower LCOE values. In comparison to the high capital costs for silicon cell plants, Solterra expects to be able reach 1GW production capacity
for less than $20M in capital expenditure.
• Solterra expects to continue to innovate low cost solar cells through the potential of the quantum dot material that has been developed at Rice University. The theoretical limit to collection efficiency is roughly double that of conventional silicon. We have access to leaders in the field of quantum dot synthesis and printable electronics and expect to be able to continue to make innovations in solar cell production and the general use of quantum dots in printed electronics, laser and LEDs for
years to come.