JA Solar宣布，正在努力商业销售新世代高效能太阳能产品，这种产品利用Innovalight的硅墨水技术。
Chinese solar cell maker plans to commercialize its products, taking advantage of a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company’s record conversion efficiency.
Shanghai, China-based JA Solar Holdings (Nasdaq:JASO) said today it’s working to commercialize next-generation high-performance solar products with Innovalight’s silicon ink technology. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Innovalight said earlier this month it has demonstrated a record 18 percent conversion efficiency of sunlight with its silicon ink processed solar cells (see Innovalight silicon-ink solar cell reaches 18% conversion).
The private, venture-backed Innovalight said the results, using industry standard size solar cells, were independently certified by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Germany’s Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE). Innovalight has also received DOE funding (see U.S. DOE puts up $17.6M for solar PV).
"Innovalight's silicon ink in conjunction with JA Solar's leadership in high volume solar cell manufacturing with demonstrated yield, conversion efficiency, and low production costs provides a very promising solution to enhance the conversion efficiency of solar cells utilizing our existing solar cell manufacturing lines," said Qingtang Jiang, JA Solar's chief technology officer, in a news release.
JA Solar said it is developing silicon ink-based high efficiency solar cells at its Yangzhou, China-based research and development pilot line. The company is planning to move its products into initial commercialization in 2010.
JA Solar’s stock was up 5.47 percent, at $4.05, in early morning trading today.
Among its other deals, JA Solar signed a long-term wafer supply agreement in 2007 with JiangSu Shunda Semiconductor Develop and a cell supply agreement with Canadian Solar (see China's JA Solar, Shunda in wafer supply deal and Canadian Solar and JA Solar sign cell supply agreement).
