1366 Technologies' Breakthrough Solar Cell Architecture and Manufacturing Processes...

1366 Technologies' Breakthrough Solar Cell Architecture and Manufacturing
Processes Enable Record Efficiencies
Innovative Cell Design Shatters Previous Cost Barriers for High Efficiencies
to Save Manufacturers $50 Billion in Five Years

LEXINGTON, Mass., Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- 1366 Technologies
(www.1366tech.com), a silicon photovoltaics company, today unveiled two
breakthrough technologies for multi-crystalline silicon solar cells. The
company's significant advancements in cell texturing and metallization deliver
simpler, more commercially-viable solutions for multi-crystalline cell
manufacturers striving to reach 18 percent efficiency. 1366 Technologies'
Self-Aligned Cell (SAC) architecture breaks the historic efficiency and cost
tradeoff of photovoltaics (PV) by providing mono-crystalline equivalent cell
efficiencies at multi-crystalline cell costs.

For years, many PV companies have tried to increase efficiencies by using
overly-complicated approaches, such as back-contact or emitter wrap through
solar cell technology, which add costly steps to the manufacturing process
with minimal gains in cell efficiency. This problem slowed the pace of
progress until MIT professor, renowned inventor and 1366 Technologies Chief
Technology Officer, Dr. Emanuel "Ely" Sachs, developed a simple,
cost-effective approach to improving cell texturing and metallization without
increasing production costs.

"At 1366 we've pioneered a cell architecture and manufacturing process that's
going to change the way we think about energy," said Frank van Mierlo,
co-founder and president of 1366 Technologies. "Our innovations have the
potential to save manufacturers $50 billion over the next five years and help
the industry deliver solar at the cost of coal."

1366 Technologies has developed two technologies that can be easily integrated
into existing manufacturing lines. The first addresses cell texture, creating
a distinctive honeycomb structure that introduces cross-textured surfaces to
the cell that trap more light and enable up to 1 percent higher absolute
efficiency overall than previous cell designs. The second focuses on the
front-side cell metallization, wherein the company has developed the world's
finest metallization lines -- just 30 microns compared to the prevailing 120
microns -- and an innovative Grooved Ribbon busbar (licensed by Ulbrich and
Schlenk). Industry standard thick fingers and flat busbars typically shade 9
percent of the surface of a cell. 1366's simple front-side metallization
approach, however, only shades 2 percent of the cell delivering 75 percent of
the efficiency gains of back-contact cell designs without the high costs and
process complexity.

"The way we see it, the right technology and materials are available now to
help PV reach grid parity, but the challenge for our industry is to
simultaneously deliver high efficiencies and low costs," said Dr. Emanuel
Sachs, co-founder and chief technology officer for 1366 Technologies. "Our
Self-Aligned Cell architecture addresses this challenge head-on. We believe
our technologies, combined with further advancements in manufacturing, will
help solar power satisfy 7 percent of global electricity demand over the next
decade and inspire one of the largest manufacturing revolutions in history."

For more information about 1366 Technologies, please visit: www.1366tech.com.
See images of the Self-Aligned Cell by going to: http://pitch.pe/25380

About 1366 Technologies
1366 Technologies' eliminates the cost and production challenges that have
hampered solar power's ability to replace fossil fuels. The company combines
breakthrough innovations in silicon cell architecture with lean manufacturing
processes to make the world's most cost effective and commercially viable high
efficiency solar cells. Developed by a veteran team of scientists, engineers
and entrepreneurs, including MIT professor and photovoltaic industry expert
Dr. Emanuel Sachs, the company's novel approach breaks the historic efficiency
and cost tradeoff of photovoltaics. 1366 Technologies is headquartered in
Lexington, MA. For more information, please visit www.1366tech.com.

SOURCE 1366 Technologies

Craig Lund, Director of Business Development of 1366 Technologies,
+1-802-595-5068, clund@1366tech.com, or Laureen McGowan of Greenough
Communications for 1366 Technologies, +1-617-275-6515,
lmcgowan@greenoughcom.com