Qcells is ready to change into the primary PV firm to deploy Lumet’s fine-line metallization expertise for its photo voltaic cell strains.
Through the metallization step of photo voltaic cell manufacturing, conductive silver fingers are screen-printed onto the cell’s floor. The business has lengthy sought to cut back finger width, with a purpose to each lower silver consumption and scale back gentle shading, the corporate says.
It provides that this expertise is able to producing sub-ten-micron finger widths, enabling PV photo voltaic cell producers to probably attain larger cell effectivity.
“After prolonged analysis and testing, Qcells has determined to undertake Lumet metallization expertise for its future PV photo voltaic cell strains,” says Qcells’ Dr. Danielle Merfeld.
“We see great potential within the Lumet metallization expertise, which is a breakthrough on a number of fronts, setting information for most interesting strains, lowest price, highest effectivity, highest pace and smallest footprint. Furthermore, with Qcells’ dedication to increasing our U.S.-based manufacturing, the low CAPEX and excessive automation degree of the Lumet methods are very engaging. For all these causes, we’re thrilled that Qcells would be the first to introduce this expertise to the market and we stay up for taking additional steps to deepening our strategic partnership with Lumet.”
