RE: PR should read2year,
In response to your post that Natcore's technology of no other use for Kodak. I strongly disagree. Here is a post from ~Aug2010. Read it... read the Natcore Website... read the Kodak research website... there is a lot of potential for other applications involving the LPD aside from solar.
Post:
Thetandem approach Natcore is developing isn't for Kodak as it is beingdesigned for silicon solar cells. The target of tandem approach iscurrent manufacturers of silicon solar cells. Kodak would be moreinterested in Vanguard's technology. The goal of Vanguard is to createthin films using carbon nanotubes as a substrate coated withsemiconducting material.
Kodak has wanted to get into solarcell production. They have been researching organic solar cells sincethe 80s and while they have been able to create organic cells theydegrade quickly & efficiencies are too low to be used as areplacement for silicon solar (right now). Those OLED's that you areseeing in the new generation televisions were developed by Kodak!
Theyhave production lines that are sitting still due to the emergence ofdigital photographic technology that has replaced the long standingphotographic film that they were used to making. The goal is thatVanguard will be able to used these old roll to roll lines and modifythem using a chemical bath deposition process to coat the carbonnanotubes with CdSe. The major advantage is that taking these old linesand modifying them to produce these new solar cells is miniscule incomparison to setting up a new manufacturing plant (thin film or siliconsolar).
Other applications... here is a link to Kodak's website...
https://www.kodak.com/US/en/corp/kea/index.jhtml?pq-path=9861/9240
Ifyou read it and browse some of those links in the left panel you mightjust see what Kodak is up to and why they might want to see if Natcorecan help them. That list that Northsun put up was put together byscientists outside of Natcore when the LPD technology was validated.
From the Natcore Website...
Thereport prepared by one of the world’s most respected scienceandtechnology laboratories following their independent testingandverification of Natcore’s liquid phase deposition technologyincludedsuggestions for potential commercial applications and products.
The fundamental nature of the Company’s technology is enabling for awide range of commercial applications.
Essentially,anyproduct or process that utilizes thin films of silicon dioxide ormixedsilicon oxides will benefit from Natcore’s technology — and thatlistincludes applications in semiconductors; MEMs (microelectromechanicalsystems); passive optical components for theall-optical internet(including fiber-to-the home telecommunicationssystems); architecturalapplications focusing on energy conservationthrough the controlledemissivity of architectural surfaces; all-opticalinterconnects forhigh-speed computer/server backplanes; ophthalmiclens coatings; andcorrosion protection, among many others.