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Oerlikon Boosts Fab Line Efficiency

One should make a clear disctinction between lab results, as Applied has acheived, versus real world, scale manufacturing results as deomstracted by Oerlikon and its customers. When evaluating data, the understanding the number of modules that have been produced with those characteristics is crucial. The cost per watt targets needed by the industry to acheive grid parity are going to be enabled by solutions that ensure predictable, repeatable mass production results. Lab data is great, but what Oerlikon has achieved is in a different league.

On Nov 14 05:36 PM FSLR Analysts wrote:

> In the spirit of fair play:
> Thought that you might want to see this. Came accross it on Semiconductor
> international:
> www.semiconductor.net/...;rid=1898799982
>
> Applied Materials has successfully developed ... PECVD processes
> for the absorber layer deposition for both SJ and TJ cells [that
> have] demonstrated excellent uniformity (<5% variations for cell
> I-V characteristics) on a substrate size of 2.2 × 2.6 m. a-Si:H SJ
> modules and a-Si:H/µc-Si:H TJ modules with 6.6% and 9.3% stabilized
> efficiencies, respectively, have been produced.