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NREL Licenses Technology to Increase Solar Cell Efficiency

Natcore to develop black silicon solar cells based on award-winning innovation

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Editor, Ink World Magazine

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced that Natcore Technology Inc. has been granted a patent license agreement to develop a line of black silicon products. Natcore and NREL also will enter a cooperative rResearch and development agreement (CRADA) to develop commercial prototypes based on NREL’s black silicon inventions and patents. “This technology will play and important role in moving forward the availability of solar technologies,” s...

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