By Finlay Colville, Director of Marketing, Solar, Cohenernt, Inc.; Corey Dunsky, Manager of Commercial Applications Center, Cohenernt, Inc.; Jim Hopkins, General Manager of the Integrated Optics System Business Unit, Cohenernt, Inc.
Increasing the efficiency and yield of production line processes forms an integral part of PV manufacturers’ technology roadmaps. For their next generation production lines, non-contact processing equipment is considered essential. This prioritizes laser-based processing, already established at several steps in c-Si and Thin-Film cell manufacturing. This paper summarizes the key issues when using lasers within PV production lines.
