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Heraeus Showcases New SOL9600 Series
The Heraeus Photovoltaics Business Unit will be exhibiting its new SOL9600 Series of front-side metallization pastes at this year's Intersolar North America 2012 Exhibition in San Francisco, USA, July 10th - 12th.
The new SOL9600 Series of front-side silver pastes for finer line printing on conventional solar cells has demonstrated an absolute efficiency increase of up to 0.3%. The increased efficiency is a result of improvements in the formulation which enable excellent contact on lower doped emitters.
"Since 2008, Heraeus' goal has been to increase our customers' cell value by focusing our R&D on past innovations that improve solar cells' efficiency while reducing their cells' cost per watt," says Andy London, Global Manager of the Heraeus Photovoltaics Business Unit. "The new 9600 Series is ideal for applications requiring higher efficiency and finer line resolution printing."
The SOL9600 Series allows cell manufacturers to reduce production cost, as the new paste, like other Heraeus pastes, maintains a high efficiency during wider temperature processing windows. The combination of lower and more uniform contact resistance with finer line resolution helps our customers improve cell efficiencies and cost of manufacturing.
