The company said it has been asked by private and governmental entities from New Mexico, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines and Brazil to use its liquid phase deposition (LPD) technology in the construction of factories to make silicon solar cells and assemble them into panels.
Since Natcore is primarily a maker of solar cell production equipment and supplies rather than the actual solar cells, it is teaming with three subcontractors – Jacob White Construction, Spire Corporation and Helium Resources – to offer its customers a facility that is fully built and equipped.
Natcore president and CEO Chuck Provini said that the company’s goal is to make solar power cost competitive with conventional power.
"We feel our technology can do that by revolutionizing the way that solar cells are made. We are replacing the old chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method with our LPD wet chemistry process," Provini said.
