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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2005. Conference Record of the Thirty-first IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8707-4
DOI :
10.1109/PVSC.2005.1488100
