Natcore names director of research and technology
Rochester Business Journal
September 6, 2012
David Levy, a former senior research scientist at Eastman Kodak Co., has been named director of research and technology at Natcore Technology Inc. at Eastman Business Park, Natcore officials said Thursday.
Levy, a native of the Philadelphia area, will focus on optimizing Natcore’s absolute black technology for coating solar cells and on completing a fully automated version of the company’s AR-box process station that uses the technology, officials said.
At Kodak, Levy invented a technique called spatial atomic layer deposition, officials said. The technique is used to produce ultrathin conformal films with atomic level control over thickness.
“As our technology portfolio continues to grow, we need to augment our scientific and intellectual depth,” Natcore president and CEO Charles Provini said in a statement.
“With his combined chemical engineering and electrical engineering background, David Levy is a perfect fit for us. He’s the first of several Ph.D.s we plan to hire.”
Levy holds a doctorate in chemical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has 20 years of industrial research and development experience with vapor-vacuum coating, nanoparticle synthesis and dispersions, liquid coating, circuits and electronic devices, officials said.
Natcore uses its liquid phase deposition technology to grow antireflective coatings on silicon wafers to create solar cells.
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