Two-In-One With PECVD
PECVD Come With An Inherent Advantage Of Depositing Aluminium Oxide On Solar Cells As Well As The Capping Silicon Nitride In One Go
Tuesday, 06 Sep 2022
As part of our PERC Solar Cell Production 2022 report, we also looked into passivation tools. PECVD is one of the two mainstream methods employed to deposit aluminium oxide used as the rear passivation dielectric in PERC structure.
Forming Emitters For Sunny Side Of Solar Cell
While Low Pressure Diffusion Is The State Of The Art, Processing Larger Wafers And Higher Productivity Are The Key Areas Of Focus For Diffusion Tools Suppliers
Tuesday, 09 Aug 2022
Diffusion is the most predominant technology employed for the solar cell’s emitter formation, typically accomplished in diffusion furnaces.
Manz Bids Adieu To Solar PV Manufacturing
Germany’s Manz To Exit CIGS Thin Film Equipment Production; Swiss CIGS Maker Flisom Gets Marna Interested
Monday, 01 Aug 2022
German solar PV equipment manufacturer Manz AG has terminated its contract with China’s Chongqing Shenhua Thin Film Solar Technology regarding supply of its machines for the latter’s CIGSfab, and also decided to exit the solar manufacturing business altogether.
China PV News Snippets
Versolsolar Launches New Generation BIPV System & More From JinkoSolar, S.C.New Energy, LONGi
Friday, 29 Jul 2022
Versolsolar comes up with new generation BIPV system; JinkoSolar’s ships 10 MW N-type modules to Pakistan; S.C New Energy wins coating equipment order; LONGi initiates changes to upgrade and transform crystal pulling capacity.
China PV News Snippets
Trina Solar’s Module Shipment Crosses 8 GW Mark In India & More From Shuangliang Eco-Energy, Hunan Red Sun
Tuesday, 26 Jul 2022
Trina Solar has shipped 8 GW modules to India; Shuangliang Eco-Energy and Chint Solar subsidiaries partner for RMB 9 billion sales deal; Hunan Red Sun ships first PVD and ALD coating equipment for perovskite cells.
Dry Etching For Texturing
Next To The Incumbent Wafer Texturing Method of Wet-Etching, There is An Alternative Called Atmospheric Dry Etching Process Offered By Nines PV
Monday, 18 Jul 2022
Surface preparation steps in a cell processing such as SDE and texturing are typically accomplished with wet-chemical benches (see Tools For Solar Wafer Texturing).
Tools For Solar Wafer Texturing
Higher Thoughput, Eliminating SDE And Reducing Chemical Consumption Are The Key Developments For Solar Wafer Texturing Wet Chemical Tools
Friday, 15 Jul 2022
Texturing is the heart of wet-chemical processes that are used for wafer conditioning — and accordingly the subject earned an important position among the wet-chemical processed discussed in our recent TaiyangNews Market Survey on PERC Cell Production Equipment 2022.
Fundamentals Of PERC Cell Processing
TaiyangNews Market Survey On PERC Cell Production Equipment Covers Important Tool Platforms Designed For Accomplishing Key 5 Important Processing Steps
Wednesday, 29 Jun 2022
PERC solar cell processing can be largely broken down into 5 steps: Surface preparation Emitter formation Passivation Metallization Testing Each of 5 steps in cell processing has a specific role.
Progress In Cell Production Equipment Segment
TaiyangNews Market Survey On PERC Production Equipment Provides Overview On Latest Devices for Manufacturing Incumbent Cell Technology
Monday, 27 Jun 2022
The 2 legs that innovation in the solar industry stands on are increasing efficiency and reducing costs, and production equipment is always in the crosshairs.
European Company Places Order With Singulus
Singulus Technologies Lands Contract For Wet Chemical Machines For HJT Solar Cells
Friday, 13 May 2022
German solar PV equipment manufacturer Singulus Technologies has been contracted to supply its wet-chemical machines for heterojunction (HJT) solar cells to an unidentified major European energy company that’s planning to construct a new fab with ‘several GW’ capacity.
New Processing System For Large Wafer Sized Cells
Fraunhofer ISE Introduces ‘Groundbreaking’ Technology with ‘On-The-Fly’ Laser Equipment
Wednesday, 27 Apr 2022
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE) has introduced a new solar cell processing system for large format solar cells, read M12 and G12, that can laser half a million contact openings per second and has an effective throughput of over 15.
China PV News Snippets
POWERCHINA Signs 300 MW Distributed PV Deal & More From TaiyangNews, Suzhou Maxwell, Almaden, Eastern Shenghong
Wednesday, 20 Apr 2022
POWERCHINA to invest in PV projects in Manchu and Yushutun towns; TaiyangNews Webinar to take place tomorrow; Suzhou Maxwell shows positive growth in Q1/2022; Almaden PV projects postponed; Eastern Shenghong releases 2021 annual report POWERCHINA s.
Reliance Bets On Heterojunction Production
India’s Reliance To Purchase 4.8 GW Heterojunction Cell Production Equipment Capacity From China’s Maxwell
Monday, 18 Apr 2022
India’s Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) has contracted Chinese solar cell equipment supplier Suzhou Maxwell Technology to deliver 8 complete lines of heterojunction (HJT) cell production equipment representing a total capacity of 4.8 GW.
Boron for TOPCon Cells
Boron Diffusion And Annealing Are The Other Important Additional Process Steps Involved In TOPCon Processing
Tuesday, 29 Mar 2022
The TOPCon cell manufacturing process involves a few additional steps compared to PERC. While emitter formation is not completely new, it is fairly different from what is done in PERC.
Deposition Options in TOPCon Cell Processing
PEALD From Leadmicro And APCVD From Schmid Are Technologies Used In Deposition Process Of TOPCon Solar Cell Processing
Wednesday, 16 Mar 2022
As mentioned in our previous articles on TOPCon solar technology published recently, nearly every know deposition technology in PV is promoted for this silicon solar cell application – and PEALD and APCVD are among those.
China PV News Snippets
TaiyangNews Virtual Conference On 22 March & More From Maxwell, Wining, Jolywood, Drinda
Wednesday, 16 Mar 2022
TaiyangNews Conference Pushing PERC To Its Limits to take place on 22 March; Suzhou Maxwell releases investor relation activities report; Wining HJT project reaches full production; Jolywood invests in silicon projects; Drinda to increase capital for cell subsidiary.
PVD Solutions For Topcon
Low Opex And High Throughput Of PVD Has Attracted The Key Player Of The Topcon Segment
Thursday, 10 Mar 2022
Any alternate deposition technology to LPCVD for TOPCon applications is wraparound free (see LPCVD for TOPCon Cells). And so is the case with Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD), a route a few equipment vendors as well as manufacturers are following.
LPCVD for TOPCon Cells
LPCVD Tools Has Been The First Choice In Depositing Polysilicon For The Early Developer Of TOPCon Solar Cells
Tuesday, 22 Feb 2022
As mentioned in an earlier TOPCon article (see Several Path To TOPCon Cells), nearly every known deposition method is promoted for the application of the rear passivation stack of TOPCon solar cells.
Several Paths To TOPCon Cells
TaiyangNews Report On TOPCon Solar Technologies Discusses Different Process Steps For Making These Cells
Thursday, 17 Feb 2022
The success of the high efficiency TOPCon process at any cell maker lies in its successful manufacturing. This article shows different variants of the TOPCon cell manufacturing process.
3D-Micromac Appoints New CTO
Hartmut Schubert’s Addition ‘Completes’ 3D-Micromac’s Management Team
Tuesday, 04 Jan 2022
Germany’s 3D-Micromac AG has expanded its leadership team with the appointment of Hartmut Schubert to the position of chief technology officer (CTO). With this, the company’s CEO Uwe Wagner explained, ‘we have completed our management team’.
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