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Capability for Producing Higher Efficiency Solar Cells
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“Working with leading suppliers
to optimize consumable materials and printing techniques, we’ve created
a unique capability to help customers quickly deploy advanced cell
patterns in production environments and bring their higher value
products to market.”
The release reads:
APPLIED MATERIALS INTRODUCES MULTIPLE PRINTING CAPABILITY FOR
PRODUCING HIGHER EFFICIENCY SOLAR CELLS
Applied Materials, Inc. today announced its Baccini Esatto
Technology™, a high precision, multi-step screen
printing capability for Applied’s market-leading Baccini back-end solar
cell processing systems. Featuring proprietary hardware and software
innovations, the Esatto Technology is designed to increase the
efficiency of crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells by enabling the
fabrication of advanced contact structures. The first of several
applications of the Esatto Technology is for double-printed metal line
deposition where it has been shown to raise absolute cell efficiency by
as much as 0.5%.
“Currently being used in customer production, Esatto Technology
demonstrates our commitment to rapidly advance crystalline silicon
technology by providing comprehensive solutions that enable higher
efficiency,” said Davide Spotti, vice president and general manager of
Applied’s Baccini Cell Systems division. “Working with leading suppliers
to optimize consumable materials and printing techniques, we’ve created
a unique capability to help customers quickly deploy advanced cell
patterns in production environments and bring their higher value
products to market.”
The Baccini Esatto Technology provides customers with a cost-effective
upgrade to their current and future Baccini back-end systems with proven
reliability and high repeatability. The result of several proprietary
hardware and software innovations including high resolution imaging,
screen alignment, and advanced process control, the Esatto Technology
allows multiple layers of different materials to be overlaid with better
than ±15μm repeatability.
Esatto Technology was designed to enable advanced contact formation
techniques such as double-printed frontside metal lines and the multiple
process flows required to create selective emitter structures. The first
application of Esatto Technology in production is for double-printed
metal lines. This application enables manufacturers to print taller,
narrower grid lines, thus reducing the shadowing effect caused by wide
grid lines while improving electrical conductivity. In a production
environment, Esatto Technology allowed the replacement of single 120μm
wide lines with two-layer, double-height lines less than 80μm wide on
the finished cell.
For more information on the full line of Applied Baccini solutions for
crystalline silicon solar cell manufacturing, visit www.appliedmaterials.com/products/solar_crystal_silicon_3.html.
Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq:AMAT) is the global leader in
Nanomanufacturing Technology™ solutions with a broad portfolio of
innovative equipment, service and software products for the fabrication
of semiconductor chips, flat panel displays, solar photovoltaic cells,
flexible electronics and energy efficient glass. At Applied Materials,
we apply Nanomanufacturing Technology to improve the way people live.
Learn more at www.appliedmaterials.com.
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