• DocumentCode
    3557540
  • Title

    CIS thin film manufacturing at Shell Solar: practical techniques in volume manufacturing

  • Author

    Wieting, R. ; Gay, R. ; Nguyen, H. ; Palm, J. ; Rischmiller, C. ; Seapan, A. ; Tamant, D. ; Willett, D.

  • Author_Institution
    Shell Solar Industries, Camarillo, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    3-7 Jan. 2005
  • Firstpage
    177
  • Lastpage
    182
  • Abstract
    CIS technologies have emerged from the laboratory. Hand crafted construction of a few small devices has given way to practical methods essential to the continuous manufacturing of large modules in high volumes. This paper surveys the present status of CIS production technology as employed at Shell Solar and reviews in detail a number of the methods developed during the transition to volume manufacturing.
  • Keywords
    copper compounds; indium compounds; semiconductor device manufacture; semiconductor thin films; solar cells; ternary semiconductors; CIS production technology; CIS thin film manufacturing; Shell Solar; hand crafted construction; volume manufacturing; Adhesives; Circuits; Coatings; Computational Intelligence Society; Electrodes; Glass; Manufacturing industries; Manufacturing processes; Substrates; Transistors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2005. Conference Record of the Thirty-first IEEE
  • ISSN
    0160-8371
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-8707-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/PVSC.2005.1488100
  • Filename
    1488100