High volume manufacturing of photovoltaic products
(HIGHSOL)
Start date: Sep 1, 2007,
End date: Aug 31, 2010
PROJECT
FINISHED
The project highSol aims at the transformation of innovative manufacturing concepts on a laboratory scale into the full industrial scale. The result will be the demonstration of technologies which will enable the mass manufacturing of Photovoltaic products with a serious reduction of manufacturing costs.The objectives are:- Demonstrating the automated manufacturing of Photovoltaic products based on thin wafers with a thickness of 150µm.- Increasing and maintaining the overall yield with the implementation of in-process quality control and feedback systems.- Demonstrating the manufacturing integration with the implementation of interfaces which will serve for future standards.The objectives will be reached by the following approach:Saving feedstock, by enabling manufacturing of 150µm wafer with a wafer size of 210*210mm, will enable a direct cost reduction of 25%. As the envisaged cost reduction in Photovoltaic industry is 5% per year, this action alone will provide European Photovoltaic industry.
Get Access to the 1st Network for European Cooperation
Log In
or
Create an account
to see this content
7 Partners Participants
- Dieselstrasse 10 - 11 GERSTHOFEN (Germany)
- Via Postumia Ovest no. 244 OLMI DI SAN BIAGIO DI CALLALTA (Italy)
- Jetzendorfer Strabe 6 PETERSHAUSEN (Germany)
- Paepestraat 84/0001 WICHELEN (Belgium)
- Calle Severo Ochoa, 50 MALAGA (Spain)
- Carl-Zeiss-Strasse 4 ALZENAU (Germany)
- 625, rue de la Croix Verte - Parc Euromédecine MONTPELLIER (France)