JA Solar Developing Next Generation Solar Products using Silicon Ink Technology from Innovalight

Shanghai, China - JA Solar announced that it is working to commercialize a new generation of high-performance solar products.

The Company wants to use silicon ink technology from Innovalight from Sunnyvale, USA. Innovalight recently announced that it has demonstrated a record 18 percent conversion efficiency using silicon ink technology and conventional silicon wafers. Results were independently certified by two of the world's recognized solar cell testing centers, the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) in Germany.

JA Solar is currently developing silicon ink-based solar cells at its R&D pilot line in Yangzhou, China with plans for initial commercialization in 2010.

Source: IWR Online, 16 Sep 2009