China Nuvo Solar Licensed Technology Offers Significant Improvements over Currently Available Solar Technology

Thursday December 13, 7:00 am ET
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--China Nuvo Solar Energy, Inc. (the “Company” or “China Nuvo”) (OTCBB: CNUV) said today that it believes its licensed technology offers significant improvements over currently available solar technology. The Company offered the following insights on its technology as it works aggressively toward commercialization.
The science used in Nuvo’s solar cell technology, based on an invention titled “Photovoltaic cell with integral light transmitting waveguide in a ceramic sleeve,” can utilize a variety of materials that are powders layered in a ceramic sleeve with a copper back contact. The ceramic sleeve eliminates the need for vacuum chambers or a vat with a molten material. A lens is glued on to the cell. The cell utilizes a wave guide to carry light through the cell. In addition, the wave guide can photo generate an electrical potential in the cell. The material and amount of layers determines voltage while amperage is dependent in part upon particle size. In essence, a multiple stacked solar cell using a wave guide transfers the square conversion area of the solar cell exposed to the sun from the horizontal to the vertical.
Nuvo’s licensed technology incorporates a process that is conducive to manufacturing using a batch process. This is possible because the solar cell cylinder itself replaces the necessity to use expensive vacuum chambers during production. The Company believes this approach is the most expeditious and cost-effective alternative to development of manufacturing capability. Consequently, since the batch processing approach is highly labor-intensive, Nuvo has executed an agreement to establish a pilot manufacturing facility in China. An additional advantage to the Chinese facility is that the only independent mine and refining operations for Cadmium/Tellurium production known to the Company in the world is located in this same geographic vicinity. Cadmium/Tellurium is one of the raw materials that can be used in the Company’s production process.
Nuvo’s licensed technology also uses a ceramic sleeve as a receptacle for the various materials used for a solar cell. The ceramic sleeve replaces typical equipment such as expensive vacuum chambers thereby permitting the interchangeability of materials. Production processes using a vacuum chamber in many cases cannot interchange materials because of contamination issues. By utilizing this technology, if a shortage of one type of material occurs, a shift can be made quickly and economically to a more cost-effective but complementary material. The materials that can be used in these cells go from soft materials like Cadmium/Tellurium to hard materials like Silicon.
A recently published independent report by the Joannopoulos Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (“MIT”) determined that light trapping by wave guides they put into photovoltaic cells was increased by 37%. This is accomplished by inter-dispersing clear crystal particles on waveguides with the solar cell by layering the semiconductor materials or “stacking.” Nuvo believes its licensed technology offers a number of significant advantages in light trapping efficiencies and certain production economies compared to current technologies. The Company believes its licensed technology can increase light trapping even further by placement of these clear crystal particles in a random manner. In addition, these wave guides allow even more layers of photovoltaic materials to be put down as the wave guides bring the light down even further than the few microns it can now travel in most materials. Nuvo believes these ceramic sleeve solar cells with wave guides lend themselves to ideal cells for use in a concentrator system.
China Nuvo Solar Energy, Inc. is a development-stage company that has acquired a license for exclusive worldwide rights to a unique solar cell technology and is developing a pilot manufacturing facility in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
This press release may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These statements are based on the Company's current expectations as to future events. However, the forward-looking events and circumstances discussed in this press release might not occur, and actual results could differ materially from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements.
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