Faster Encapsulation
Collaboration between DuPont and Bürkle Doubles Module Output
DuPont Photovoltaic Encapsulants and Bürkle North America, Inc. have cooperated in speeding up module lamination. Using new DuPont PV5400 Series encapsulant, an Ypsator laminator can produce up to twice as many glass/glass solar modules per hour as traditional laminators. more...
Metallization Pastes and Backsheet
DuPont and Yingli Enter $100 Million Agreement
DuPont (Wilmington, USA) and Yingli Energy (China) have signed a $100 million strategic agreement for photovoltaic materials aimed at accelerating the adoption of solar energy. more...
Dupont Tedlar Polyvinyl Fluoride Film
Dupont and Suntech Sign Strategic Agreement
Dupont and Suntech, the largest producer of solar panels in the global market, have signed a stratetic agreement to increase the supply of photovoltaic materials and technologies for the growing solar energy market. more...
Copper-Zinc-Tin-Sulfide Based Thin-film Solar Cells
AQT Readies Low-Cost CIGS 3.0 for Commercialization
US photovoltaic company Aqt Solar announced that it has achieved near world record efficiencies using an even lower cost and production friendly sputter deposited CZTS (copper-zinc-tin-sulfide) thin-film solar cell. more...
High Efficiency Solar Technology
DuPont Collaborates with Yingli
DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions and Yingli Green Energy Holding, one of the world’s largest vertically integrated photovoltaic manufacturers, are collaborating to advance technology for higher efficiency solar cells, new module manufacturing processes, and innovative component designs. more...
Sealing and Bonding Benefits
Assembly of Thin Film Modules with New Back End Processes
Production costs of thin film modules can be further reduced by introducing new back-end processes. To find the optimum contacting solution, the pros and cons of each technology must be compared together with their suitability for the different connections in a thin film module, keeping the whole current path in mind. It is also important to determine which contacting technology works well in order to gain an meaningful cost comparison of different processes. more...
Purge Gas Recovery
Reduced CO2 Footprint for Silicon Ingot Manufacturers
The ArgonØ recovers and recycles up to 95% of the purge gas from silicon vacuum furnaces utilising technology jointly developed by Gas Recovery & Recycle Ltd and Cambridge University. Furnace users can recover and re-utilise purge gas at a purity level of 99.9998%. more...
Thin-film Modules with Aluminium-doped Zinc Oxide TCO Coating Offer High Flexibility
Glass Galore
Specifically developed for photovoltaic applications, Euroglas PV Flat is a high-strength and ultra-plane solar glass showing extremely low distortion. Different glass types serve different purposes in solar modules. more...
Weather-resistant PV Backsheets
Come Wind, Come Weather
Highly productive manufacturing processes and new concepts for saving materials and energy are vital to the future viability of the solar industry. Development of innovative adhesives and sealants plays an important part in meeting the challenges facing the market, . more...
Monosilane-based Polysilicon Technology
Polysilicon Production Reaches Full Operation
The successful start of production at the hydrochlorination plant for synthesis of trichlorosilane completes the commissioning of Schmid Silicon Technology’s own monosilane-based polysilicon production facility. more...
Molybdenum Sputtering Targets, Silicon Nitride Powders
Improved Cost/Watt Ratio for Photovoltaics
Molybdenum sputtering targets for back contacts in CIGS and CdTe solar modules directly address the pressing need to improve the cost/watt ratio in the manufacturing of thin film PV modules; silicon nitride crucible coatings facilitate silicon ingot production. more...
Materials for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
New Solar-Cell Electrolytes
A screen-printed 60 × 100 cm glass-based prototype module manufactured by Fraunhofer ISE and incorporating materials from Merck reflects the current state of the art in dye-sensitized solar cells. more...
Encapsulant Films
Faster Production, Greater Module Stability
Enhanced efficiencies in photovoltaic PV module production and lower conversion costs are claims made for ENLIGHT Polyolefin Encapsulant Films produced by Dow Chemical Company. more...
Silicone Adhesive
Back Rail Bonding to Photovoltaic Modules
Secure and long-term bonding of the back rail to the rear of PV modules is feasible with Ottocoll S 640. This elastic silicone material displays excellent adhesion to glass and withstands extreme temperature and climatic fluctuations as well as high UV levels. more...
Metallization Pastes
Reduced Paste Usage
New silver metallization pastes developed in the interests of reducing the cost-per-watt of PV systems maintain the same high efficiency and processing characteristics as the previous leading paste at 20% lower paste consumption. more...
Cleaning and Etching Machine for Silicon Wafers
Wet-Chemical Processing Costs Reduced
The improved Silex wet-chemical batch cleaning and etching machine for silicon wafers utilises a new texturing process which is free of flammable volatile solvents such as isopropanol (IPA) and is based on commercially available additives. more...
Elastic Two-component Silicone Sealants
Secure Mounting of Junction Boxes on Solar Modules
Junction boxes pool the current generated by the solar cells and redirect it. Since complete modules cease to function if junction boxes fail, special attention must be given to their proper mounting. more...
Silver Pastes
Low Temperature Processing of Thin-Film and c-Si Solar Cells
Heraeus’ new SOL500 Series of metallization pastes are formulated for low temperature processing of thin-film and crystalline-silicon solar cells. All these pastes possess faster cure times, higher efficiencies, and greater adhesion than previous materials. more...
New Water-debondable Adhesive Eliminates Acids, Minimizes Wafer Damage
Simplified Solar Silicon Slicing
A water-debondable epoxy adhesive introduced by Henkel Corporation simplifies silicone ingot bonding and protects against wafer breakage. It provides excellent bond strength to both silicon and the glass and metal mounting substrates used in ingot sawing. more...
Eco-friendly Cleaning Fluid
Wetter Is Better
The range of etching, texturizing, doping, and cleaning mono- and polycrystalline solar cells available from BASF has been extended to include the innovative and eco-friendly cleaning fluid SELURIS Clean. more...
Fast Cure Conductive Adhesive for Back Contact Solar Modules
Stress Absorbing Adhesives for Back Contacting
Engineered Conductive Materials, a global supplier of conductive interconnect materials for photovoltaic applications, debuts its DB-1580 Series Conductive Stringer Attach Adhesives for back contact applications in crystalline silicon solar modules. more...