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Natcore Technology to Present Paper to IEEE Photovoltaic Conference
Natcore Technology to Present Paper to IEEE Photovoltaic Conference.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n\n\n\nNatcore Technology to Present Paper to IEEE Photovoltaic Conference\n\n/* Style Definitions */\nspan.prnews_span\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\na.prnews_a\n{\ncolor:blue;\n}\nli.prnews_li\n{\nfont-size:8pt;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\n}\np.prnews_p\n{\nfont-size:0.62em;\nfont-family:\"Arial\";\ncolor:black;\nmargin:0in;\n}\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNatcore Technology to Present Paper to IEEE Photovoltaic Conference\n\"This will be the first time that the Natcore Foil Cell™ will be exposed in detail to the PV scientific community\": Provini\nPR Newswire\nROCHESTER, N.Y., May 24, 2017\n\n\n\nROCHESTER, N.Y., May 24, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientists at Natcore Technology Inc. (TSX-V: NXT; OTCQB: NTCXF) have been selected to present a technical paper to the 44th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC-44), the pre-eminent global technical conference in photovoltaics. \n\nTitled \"Multilayer Foil Metallization for All Back Contact Cells,\" the paper is co-authored by Dr. David Levy, Natcore's Director of Research & Technology, and Dr. David Carlson, a member of Natcore's Science Advisory Board. Dr. Levy will make the oral presentation.\n\nThe presentation will formally introduce the Natcore Foil Cell™ to the PV scientific community. Natcore's foil cell is an all-back-contact cell that combines a revolutionary laser process with a novel metallization strategy, thus enabling high-efficiency cell architectures at low cost. Importantly, it also eliminates the need for silver, one of the highest-cost components of a conventional solar cell. \n\nFurthermore, it benefits from the advantages of all-back-contact structures, particularly a low cell-to-module loss. Whenever traditional solar cells are assembled into modules, there is a significant loss of efficiency. These losses, which can range from 6% to 10%, are minimized on modules made with all-back-contact cells. \n\nNatcore scientists have recently achieved an efficiency of 20.7% in their demonstration foil cell. Their result has received independent confirmation at the NanoPower Research Lab of the Rochester Institute of Technology.\n\n\"Although our efficiencies have been approaching that level for a few months, we didn't want to go to the scientific community until our result was substantiated by an authoritative outside ...