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Dow & Krayden team up
KRAYDEN, a silicone supplier that specializes in technical knowledge and support for high-tech based applications, signed a distribution agreement with Dow Corning Solar Solutions to address growing industry needs in solar manufacturing.
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In an agreement with Dow Corning Solar Solutions, Krayden. is now an authorized distributor of their PV-based silicone materials. Krayden, Inc. offers manufacture trained representatives for both established and new silicone materials being developed by Dow Corning to increase efficiency in the solar panel and photovoltaic manufacturing industries. Combining the technically trained support, re-packaging, dispensing and processing solutions offered by Krayden, Inc. throughout North America, the pioneering silicone materials: adhesives and sealants being produced by Dow Corning Solar Solutions now provides the complete support required to accommodate the evolving solar market.
“With a long standing history and technical knowledge of the Dow Corning product lines supplying Dow Corning Electronics and Industrial Solutions, expanding our partnership to include Dow Corning Solar Solutions was a natural progression. We are proud to be adding Dow Corning PV silicones to our selected family of lines designed to complement each other and offer solar manufacturers and related businesses the best available
AMAT sees solar growth
options for their application needs. With the addition of the Dow Corning photovoltaic line, we are able to bring total value to the customer by offering full service solutions including; PV cell coatings, junction box potting agents and adhesives, ribbon solder, lead free solder, tapes, sealants and conductive inks.”
Many new materials are being produced by Dow Corning aimed at significantly increasing efficiency in solar
manufacturing. Some silicone products in demand include; PV Cell and Module Coatings, PV Junction Box Potting Agents, PV Rail Bond Adhesives, PV Frame Sealants and PV Junction Box Adhesives.
These products along with technical support in applications will be more accessible to a broader spectrum in the solar panel industry with the distribution services now offered by Krayden, Inc.
Utilizing black silicon JV
COHERENT and SiOnyx have announced they have entered into a joint development agreement for solar cell capital equipment (tools) manufacturing utilizing SiOnyx’s Black Silicon processing that is based upon the interaction of ultrafast laser light and silicon in a controlled environment.
Black Silicon offers the potential of a number of advantages over currently deployed technologies, including reduction of costs, an increase of conversion efficiencies, and improvements in manufacturing yields.
Stephen Saylor, President and Chief Executive Officer of SiOnyx commented, “Partnering with Coherent gives SiOnyx access to the industry’s most advanced ultrafast laser technology and allows us to continue the rapid pace of advancement of the Black Silicon platform.
With this collaboration, we look forward to demonstrating the scalability of our process beyond the initial applications of photodetection and imaging and exploit the compelling benefits of Black Silicon’s enhanced quantum efficiency in the solar industry.”
“We are excited that this agreement brings together SiOnyx‘s unique process expertise with Coherent ultrafast laser technology to increase the pace of development in this exciting area,” said John Ambroseo, Coherent’s President and Chief Executive Officer.
Applied Materials has announced that its Esatto Technology is expected to be used in more than 2 gigawatts of annual cell manufacturing capacity in the next few months at customer sites in China, Taiwan and Europe. Customers have demonstrated 0.46% absolute cell efficiency gains with Esatto Technology, and up to a 14% reduction in consumption of silver printing paste. 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.
“Our Esatto Technology demonstrates Applied’s ability to overcome challenges in integrating new cell technologies and to provide easy-to-implement, cost- effective solutions to our customers,” said Davide Spotti, vice president and general manager of Applied’s Baccini Cell Systems division. “We’re seeing an enthusiastic response from cell makers because they can drive their efficiency roadmaps using their existing production equipment and process flows.”
www.solar-pv-management.com Issue III 2010
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