Franklin Advanced Materials | Photovoltaic

Franklin Advanced Materials develops and manufactures specially engineered materials for wide range of industrial markets, including: photovoltaic solar cell production, solid oxide fuel cells, hybrid/multilayer microelectronics, electronic components, sensors, and other thick-film interconnect or metallization applications.
We offer our products to customers around the world, providing you with custom materials development, component fabrication, and state-of-the-art testing services. Our scientists and engineers have over 75 years of experience in thick film materials and over 40 years in fuel cell materials development. We look forward to working with you to provide off the shelf products and customized solutions that enable you to meet your cost and performance goals.



Photovoltaic Photovoltaic Cells Franklin Advanced Materials develops and manufactures a full line of PV metallization pastes for c-Si applications at its facilities in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. Our PV team of engineers and scientists brings over 75 years of thick film experience to create cost effective and reliable solutions for your PV process. Our SunAG front side silver paste series is designed to provide cutting edge cell performance using novel Chemically Active Nanoparticle (CAN) technology. This front side material combined with our LunAL back side aluminum paste and LunAG backside silver paste can provide our customers with leading edge wafer performance and value. We understand that there are differences in wafer construction and materials. With your wafers, our scientists can create customized paste formulations to help you obtain your desired yield and efficiency goals. Our team has assembled a complete metallization line with cutting edge process and metrology tools to thoroughly test and characterize the solutions that we develop for you. We also offer PV engineering and metrology services with these tools and our skilled engineers. By engaging our experience and tools with your wafers and specifications, technology gains can be obtained in an effective, timely and cost effective way by extending your engineering capacity without disruption to your production	Fuel Cell Fuel Cell Products & Services With eight years of experience developing, manufacturing and testing proprietary SOFC cell designs using tape casting, hot isostatic lamination and screen printing techniques, Franklin AM can provide you with off-the-shelf or custom designed materials for your SOFC project or product. We can also provide you with testing and materials characterization services related to SOFC as well as technical consulting Cathode Pastes A full line of state of the art cathode pastes, based on La0.8Sr0.2Mn (LSM), are available in both trial and production quantities. These cathodes have been optimized for high surface area and ionic conductivity in the functional layer and high porosity with high electronic conductivity in the current collection layer. SOFC Complete Cells, Half Cells and Electrolyte Substrates We offer a range of materials for the development of solid oxide fuel cells. These include: complete working cells in either anode supported or electrolyte supported configuration electrolyte substrates in both yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) and scandia-stabilized zirconia (ScSZ) material half cells for electrode development	Specialty Specialty Products Franklin Advanced Materials develops and produces Manufacturing Materials and offers Services to suit your research, development and production requirements. From our facility in Pottstown, Pennsylvania our team of engineers and scientists brings over 75 years of fuel cell and thick film experience to create timely and cost effective materials and process solutions. Vehicles and Thinners for use with standard and customized pastes are available for Franklin Advanced Materials Fuel Cell, Photovoltaic and custom compositions. Fuel cell pastes, including anodes, cathodes, electrolytes and infiltratable materials can be optimized in a research or development environment for viscosity/rheology and solids properties by utilizing individual or multiple adjusters, depending on the desired microstructure and thickness requirements. Setters and cover plates which will be in contact with components are available in green (unfired) or fired format in a variety of standard compositions, porosities, thicknesses and sizes, as well as custom configurations. Optimum configuration allows the highest furnace loading without compromising product yield or product performance. All Franklin Advanced Materials pastes, vehicles, thinners and green (unfired) tapes are all Phthalate free. A variety of Specialty services are also available from Franklin Advanced Materials: . Contract Research Custom Materials Development Rheology Testing Scanning Electron Microscopy Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectroscopy Surface Topology.

Photovoltaic Services
	Cell Surface Topology
	Solar Cell Testing
	SEM/ EDS

	Tapes
	Pastes
	Cells and Components
	Powders

Fuel Cell Services
	Fuel Cell Testing
	SEM/EDS
	Surface Topology
	Printing Optimization
	Firing Optimization

	Front Side Silver (SunAG)
	Back Side Aluminum (LunAL)
	Back Side Silver (LunAG)

	Firing Profile Optimization
	Printing Optimization
	Finger Geometry Optimization

Specialty Services
	Contract Research
	Custom Materials Development
	SEM/EDS
	Surface Topology

Photovoltaic

Fuel Cell

SOFC Complete Cells, Half Cells and Electrolyte Substrates

Specialty