Innovalight’s management team is building the company to be a leader in solar cell technology. The Cougar™ Platform is the first step in this journey.  Additional platforms and products will soon follow that will address the needs of crystalline silicon cell manufacturers.

Shortly following the Cougar Platform will be the Puma™ Platform, a multi-crystalline based Selective Emitter. Like the Cougar Platform, the Puma Platform will add just one additional step to the conventional manufacturing line. Given the relatively poor quality of multi-crystalline substrates, the Puma Platform cell conversion efficiency gain is expected to be slightly less than efficiency gain of the Cougar Platform, which is produced using the more pure mono-crystalline wafers. Subsequent platforms will cost effectively increase the conversion efficiency past twenty percent for mono-crystalline wafers and eighteen percent for multi-crystalline wafers.

The need for contactless deposition will become stronger as wafer manufactures continue to reduce the thickness of mono and multi-crystalline wafers. Innovalight is in position to exploit this trend with years of inkjet and other non-contact deposition experience. In fact, Innovalight already has developed a formulation of Silicon Ink that is compatible with inkjet printing equipment. When the industry is ready, Innovalight will be waiting with an easy-to-implement thin-wafer based platform.