Japanese electronics materials firm, Shin-Etsu Chemical, is offering to license its production-ready bifacial monocrystalline solar cell technology that is claimed to have the highest conversion efficiency of 21% for conventional screen-printing processes.
Shin-Etsu Chemical said it had around 10 patents related to its commercial 156x156mm cell processing technology, which it claimed offers a relatively easy manufacturing process, applicable to the existing mass production processes that are based on conventional screen-printing technology.
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The company said it had decided to license the technology as it wanted to “play an important role in further widely spreading the use of solar cell technology throughout society”.
Shin-Etsu Chemical could potentially also benefit from supplying high-purity P-type and N-type mono wafers.
