OTB Solar and ARISE Technologies Corporation, which is dedicated to becoming a leader in high performance, high quality, cost-effective solar technology, today announced that their cooperation has resulted in significant progress in the development and deployment of OTB Solar's Single Pass Selective Emitter Process, in combination with a conventional P-doper diffusion furnace, to produce high efficiency silicon based photovoltaic cells.    

The Single Pass Process enables the deposition of the area emitter and selective emitter dopants in a single pass process sequence, thus reducing and eliminating the need for additional costly emitter forming equipment, processes and materials.  The emitter forming process under development at OTB Solar's Eindhoven Technology Center and ARISE’s Bischofswerda PV Cell Production Fab utilizes OTB Solar's ELEMENTS Ink Jet Printing Deposition Platform. This industrial scale product can be easily adjusted towards the different throughput requirements of cell makers.

"Recent developments indicate that a significant improvement in cell effect can be attained by way of a single pass Selective Emitter Process.  The process is simple, cost effective and can be easily integrated into existing cell production operations,” says Paul Breddels, CEO of OTB Solar.

Ian MacLellan, Vice Chairman, President of Systems Division and CTO of ARISE Technologies stated, “We have been looking at various selective emitter approaches and like this one because it is simpler to implement in production while keeping existing throughput on our production lines. These low volume results also demonstrate that we can implement this technology on our existing production lines.  We look forward to working with OTB to develop a high volume solution to complement our strategy of a step by step approach to delivering on our high efficiency program for our customers and shareholders.”

To know more about OTB Solar, visit: Website: www.otb-solar.com, www.arisetech.com.

Last update: 09 October 2009 at 04:49

Keywords : OTB Solar, Eindhoven Technology Center, ARISE Technologies Corporation, Single Pass Selective Emitter Process, ELEMENTS Ink Jet Printing Deposition Platform.

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