Industry Leader Exhibits New Generation of Higher-Efficiency Front-side Silver Pastes with wider processing window

Intersolar Europe 2012

June 11, 2012 12:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time

HANAU, Germany & WEST CONSHOHOCKEN, Pa.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--The Heraeus Photovoltaics Business Unit will be exhibiting its new SOL9600 Series of front-side metallization pastes at this year's Intersolar Europe 2012 Exhibition in Munich, Germany June 13th - 15th.

"The SOL9600 Series of pastes is a significant improvement over our SOL9235 and SOL9411 pastes. Along with higher efficiency, the SOL9600 Series provide customers with a much wider processing window due to its excellent uniformity in contact resistance on wafers with substantial variations in sheet resistance," according to Andy London, Vice President of Heraeus Precious Metals LLC in West Conshohocken. The new Heraeus SOL9600 Series for conventional c-Si solar cells has demonstrated up to a 35% decrease in contact resistance on regular and high sheet emitter wafers and an absolute efficiency improvement of up to 0.3%. As with all Heraeus metallization pastes, the SOL9600 series offers a wider processing window during firing, which provides a tighter production output distribution and improves yields.

The SOL9600 Series is ideal for applications requiring higher efficiency and finer line resolution printing. To learn more about Heraeus' SOL9600 and other metallization pastes for the photovoltaic industry, visit us at this year's Intersolar Europe Exhibition in Munich, Germany June 13th - 15th, at the Munich trade fair center, hall A6, booth 270. You can also go to www.pvsilverpaste.com.

About the Heraeus Photovoltaics Business Unit

The Heraeus Photovoltaics Business Unit is an industry leading developer and manufacturer of silver metallization pastes for the photovoltaic industry. For over 40 years, Heraeus has built a reputation of innovation, extensive research and new product development for some of the most prominent companies within a variety of industries. In the field of photovoltaics, the Heraeus Photovoltaics Business Unit applies this history and its innovative technology to offer metallization pastes for solar cell applications. The Heraeus SOL Series of silver pastes is specially formulated to provide higher efficiencies and wider processing windows, resulting in better yields and higher output for cell manufacturers.

Heraeus, the precious metals and technology group headquartered in Hanau, Germany, is a global, private company with more than 160 years of tradition. Our fields of competence include precious metals, materials, and technologies, sensors, biomaterials, and medical products, as well as dental products, quartz glass, and specialty light sources. With product revenues of €4.8 billion and precious metal trading revenues of €21.3 billion, as well as more than 13,300 employees in over 120 subsidiaries worldwide, Heraeus holds a leading position in its global markets.