13.05.2014
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DGAP-News: centrotherm photovoltaics AG: centrotherm process and production solutions provide solar cell manufacturers with significant cost reductions and flexibility for tomorrow's cell concepts
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centrotherm photovoltaics AG: centrotherm process and production
solutions provide solar cell manufacturers with significant cost
reductions and flexibility for tomorrow's cell concepts
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centrotherm process and production solutions provide solar cell
manufacturers with significant cost reductions and flexibility for
tomorrow's cell concepts
- Low-pressure diffusion creates precondition for industrial
manufacturing of high-quality emitters
- Highly-efficient bifacial n-type silicon solar cells in mass production
- PECVD process for aluminum oxide coating
Blaubeuren, May 13, 2014 - Both continued cost pressure and the necessity
for efficiency improvements will comprise the main topics at next week's
SNEC PV Power Expo trade fair in Shanghai. Here, centrotherm will be
presenting its solutions that offer solar cell manufacturers expedient
options to reduce their production costs as well as boosting process
flexibility for tomorrow's cell and production concepts.
Convincing results with centrotherm low-pressure phosphorus diffusion
With its highly productive low-pressure diffusion system, centrotherm is
enabling its customers to attain cost savings of up to 40 % per wafer. This
is achieved through almost doubled system throughput of more than 140 MW
per year and lower media consumption. Even in the case of emitter
resistances of up to 150 Ω/square, customers achieve outstanding
homogeneity, and can fully exploit efficiency potentials of both
conventional and new metallization pastes (emitter resistance > 100
Ω/square). The centrotherm low-pressure technology opens up a broad
corridor for new diffusion processes for solar cell manufacturers,
especially through the fast and changing deployment of gases in the process
tube. Currently, centrotherm low-pressure diffusion systems are already
installed in mass production with a total capacity of more than 1.2
gigawatts (GW).
Low-pressure boron diffusion
In a joint project with the International Solar Energy Research Center
(ISC) in Constance, centrotherm is developing a new low-pressure process
for highly efficient boron doping. This enables efficiency enhancement and
production cost reduction for n-type solar cells, especially through the
integration of upstream and downstream process steps and shorter process
times.
New cell concepts for mass production: "BiSoN Alliance" with ISC Constance
for bifacial n-type solar cells
Together with ISC Constance and SIBCO, centrotherm is offering process and
system packages for the mass production of bifacial n-type silicon solar
cells that achieve efficiencies of over 20.5 %. All of the processes
required for this have been tested in mass production and developed on
centrotherm production systems. These cells are optimally designed and
compatible for standard solar module manufacturing. The integration of the
BiSoN cell concept into existing mass manufacturing is possible due to the
deployment of proven centrotherm production systems entailing low
investment and time expense.
Compared with p-type silicon solar cells, n-type cells possess greater
efficiency potential and do not exhibit light-induced degradation. The
International Technology Roadmap for Photovoltaic (ITRPV) sees their
efficiency rising to over 24 % over the next ten years (p-type mono-Si
cells only up to 22 %). According to the ITRPV Roadmap which was published
in May 2014, the share of n-type silicon solar cells will also continue to
report strong growth from below 10 % today to around 40 % over the coming
decade.
centrotherm PECVD process for aluminum oxide coating (Al2O3)
Supplementing its centaurus PERC technology to manufacture mono-crystalline
solar cells, centrotherm will also offer a further process and system
package for passivation with Al2O3/SiNX stacks in the future. Cell
efficiencies can be boosted considerably through avoiding recombination
losses and increasing reflectivity on the cell rear side.Upgrade packages
for centrotherm PECVD systems will be available for our customers during
the second half of 2014. New systems can be ordered from 2015.
"We regard ourselves as a solutions-provider to the photovoltaic industry.
Our customers' requirements vary greatly. Our evolutionary approach
guarantees our customers that centrotherm systems deployed in their
production can be upgraded to the latest state-of-the-art with process and
hardware upgrade packages from our technicians, or that new cell concepts
such as centaurus (PERC) or BiSoN (n-type) can be integrated into existing
and new production lines. Along with our systems' performance, this is a
critical factor for our customers' investments that also offers additional
security and flexibility for the future," notes Dr. Josef Haase, Senior
Vice President Technology Photovoltaics, before adding: "With a track
record of more than 2,000 installed systems and the construction of more
than 50 turnkey production lines, centrotherm has the world's largest
installed base of PV systems in operation. In addition, most leading
producers' production lines are constructed according to our established
manufacturing concept."
With its expertise and experience in thermal processing for the
highly-developed semiconductor industry, centrotherm enjoys a wide-reaching
technology pool to develop new cell concepts. This allows us to offer our
customers solutions that span different industrial sectors. Examples
include technology for the atomic layer deposition or texturing from our
subsidiary FHR Anlagenbau.
centrotherm at SNEC PV Power Expo - May 20-22, 2014:
Stand E3/370
FHR Anlagenbau GmbH at SNEC Scientific Conference on May 22, 2014
Session 5, Thin Films and Novel PV Concepts, 11:15 - 11:30 a.m.
Dr. Stella Maris Van Eek: "Transparent conductive oxides on polymer foil
for PV production lines"
About centrotherm photovoltaics AG
centrotherm has been developing and realizing innovative thermal solutions
for over 50 years. As a leading and globally operating technology group, we
offer production solutions for the photovoltaic, semiconductor and
microelectronic industries.
The continuous further development of our successful solutions in thermal
processing and coating, such as for manufacturing crystalline solar cells
and power semiconductors, form the basis for our successful partnerships
with industry, research and development.
Our customers worldwide appreciate our production systems' process
stability, scalability and availability in mass production. Above and
beyond this, our work is distinguished by the fact that we create high-end
process technology solutions which are specific for our customers and
tailored to their requirements, and the fact that we are outstanding in
system building.
We jointly confront the daily challenges of setting new trends, maximizing
the efficiency of producing, for example, solar cells and semiconductors,
and, coupled with our long machine durations, of securing investments.
In this way, we generate valuable competitive advantages for our customers
through targeted innovations to processes and production solutions.
Our around 800 staff worldwide are committed to the further development of
high-tech solutions for key markets.
centrotherm photovoltaics AG
Johannes-Schmid-Str. 8
89143 Blaubeuren
Internet: www.centrotherm.de
German Securities Identification Number (WKN): A1TNMM (bearer shares);
A1TNMN (unlisted shares from the non-cash capital increase)
ISIN: DE000A1TNMM9 (bearer shares); DE000A1TNMN7 (unlisted shares from the
non-cash capital increase)
Admitted to the Regulated Market/General Standard, Frankfurt Stock Exchange
Corporate domicile: Germany
Contact:
Nathalie Albrecht
Manager Public & Investor Relations
Tel: +49 7344 918-6304
E-mail: [email protected]
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Language: English
Company: centrotherm photovoltaics AG
Johannes-Schmid-Strasse 8
89143 Blaubeuren
Germany
Phone: +49 7344 918-0
Fax: +49 7344 918-8388
E-mail: [email protected]
Internet: www.centrotherm.de
ISIN: DE000A1TNMM9
WKN: A1TNMM
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Freiverkehr in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hannover,
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