DayStar Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: DSTI), a thin-film solar developer and manufacturer, announced it achived key performance milestones on TerraFoil(TM) cells.
As an alternative to wafer Silicon cells, DayStar’s TerraFoil(TM) cells have the potential to dramatically lower photovoltaic module costs below current levels, which could significantly expand the market and accelerate the use of solar power systems worldwide. Recent results from measurements performed in DayStar’s characterization laboratory have shown solar cells produced from its Gen I line achieved 16.9 percent total area conversion efficiencies on (1.1 cm2) glass substrates and 15.7 percent on flexible metal substrates. Similar size TerraFoil(TM) cells made on their commercial-scale Gen II platform have achieved 13 percent efficiencies. However, the most significant achievement was the demonstration of a 13.5 percent larger area device (14 cm2) produced using processes being developed for their high-capacity Gen III(TM) production platform.
“These results further advance this year’s mission of demonstrating product efficacy and are very encouraging as we enter into commercial scale production with Gen II,” commented Jack McCaffrey, Vice President of Manufacturing, DayStar Technologies.
“The larger area cell performance achieved clearly demonstrates the viability of our Gen III(TM) process,” said Bob Weiss, Vice President of Advanced Technologies of the Equipment Development Group located in Santa Clara, California. “We are rapidly incorporating these process results to complete the design of our first Gen III(TM) tools and remain confident in our timelines.”
DayStar Technologies, Inc. is an emerging leader in low cost, high efficiency Photovoltaic Foil(TM) that converts sunlight into energy. The Company manufactures CIGS solar cells, which are deposited on flexible metal foils using production processes adapted from the semiconductor and magnetic drive industries. As an alternative to wafer-silicon solar cells, DayStar believes the unique combination of its CIGS solar cell design coupled with proprietary manufacturing processes on flexible metal substrates could substantially lower costs and remove deployment barriers currently limiting large adoption of solar energy.
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