Title :
Manufacturing of ‘ink based’ CIGS solar cells/modules
Author :
Kapur, Vijay ; Kemmerle, Richard ; Bansal, Ashish ; Haber, Joel ; Schmitzberger, Jurg ; Le, Phucan ; Guevarra, Dan ; Kapur, Vijay ; Stempien, Tim
Author_Institution :
International Solar Electric Technology Inc. (ISET), 20600 Plummer Street, Chatsworth, CA 91311, USA
Abstract :
The rapid growth of the PV business demands increased production capacity and lowered cost of manufacturing PV modules. ISET has developed a low cost ‘ink-based’ process by which high efficiency CIGS modules can be manufactured at very low costs. ISET is currently in the process of commercializing this technology. This paper describes ISET´s progress in setting up the pilot plant of 3MW/Yr nominal capacity for CIGS modules and plans to expand it into a full scale (≫50 MW/Yr) manufacturing facility.
Keywords :
Chemical vapor deposition; Costs; Crystallization; Ink; Manufacturing processes; Photovoltaic cells; Printing; Production; Substrates; Zinc oxide;
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2008. PVSC '08. 33rd IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1640-0
Electronic_ISBN :
0160-8371
DOI :
10.1109/PVSC.2008.4922496
