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Alpha® Form PV Electroform Stencils are designed and manufactured to deposit thick film paste for PV cell front side metallization. Both single and double layer stencils (developmental) are available and manufactured using 100% solid nikel plating (electroforming process). The end result is a high precision durable stencil of any custom thickness with the possibility to print a full H-pattern or a variant on a silicon cell.Exclusively distributed by Tagray Solar.

ALPHA® Silver Conductor & Conductive Adhesive are high conductivity products specially formulated for cell metalization and panel assembly applications.

ALPHA® n:1000-IJ (ink jet)

ALPHA® n:1000-SP (screen print)

ALPHA® n:1000 ink jet and screen print products from Cookson Electronics specifically developed to deliver high conductivity, low process temperatures, good adhesion and high reliability printing.

Alpha® PV Solder Preform technology delivers controlled solder volume and increased yield and throughput for challenging PV module assembly applications. They have extensive solder preform flux capabilities in a wide variety of alloys.

Alpha®PV Solder Pastes are no-clean products requiring no post-solder reflow cleaning. They are ideal for manual or automatic dispensing, their flux residue is clear and colourless, and they deliver high electrical reliability.Alpha PV-100, Alpha PV-200 and Alpha PV-300 are available in Lead Free and Tin/Lead alloys visit wwww.alpha.cooksonelectronics.com for more information and technical data

Alpha PV Fluxes deliver best in class reliability and soldering performance with minimal residues. As the largest supplier of electronics soldering fluxes in the world, Cookson Electronics has leveraged our experience to produce Tabbing and Stringing (T&S) Fluxes that use the latest technology. These fluxes are designed to be robust enough for a variety of processing conditions in both SnPb and Pb-free applications.Each Flux is designed for optimal tabbing and stringing performance. These fluxes are effective on hard-to-solder surfaces such as AgAI surfaces and help create strong interconnects. Alpha®PV T&S Fluxes will maximise throughput and yield, as well as lower equipment maintenance time, reducing per module costs.

ALPHA® PV-Ribbon is high quality solder coated copper ribbon delivered on precision traverse wound spools and offered in a variety of  solder alloys, including SnPbAg, SnPb and low temperature SnBi. It is available in various levels of "softness" designed to meet specific requirements to help eliminate cell breakage.

Alpha PV Ready Ribbon is a proprietary, resilient flux coated, solder ribbon used to link solar cells in the photovoltaic module assembly process. It's unique feature is the patented chemistry and technology used to flux-coat the ribbon, thereby eliminating the need to apply flux separately during the tabbing and stringing process.