Heraeus Photovoltaics announced a joint development agreement with Sunrise Global Solar Energy (part of Sino-American Silicon Products Inc./SAS). Under the terms of the joint development agreement, the two companies will collaborate on research efforts for the design and formulation of front-side metallization pastes for high efficiency passivated emitter rear contact (PERC) solar cells.

With this partnership, the two companies plan to work in close collaboration to customize Heraeus' paste formulation to Sunrise's CELCO solar cell and optimize the metallization process to maximize their cell's output. Sunrise CELCO technology, a combination of PERC method and proprietary know-how developed by Sunrise, has already achieved peak cell efficiency of 21.5% in mass production of p-type monocrystalline cells, and its next milestone is to push average cell efficiency to 21.0%.

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