PHOTON's 4^th PV Equipment Conference (Part 2 – Thin film)

9:00 - 9:05
CONFERENCE OPENING
Chairperson: 
• Michael Schmela, PHOTON International
• Olga Papathanasiou, PHOTON International

9:05 - 9:30
KEYNOTE
• Arvind Shah, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland (confirmed)
»History and future of silicon thin film technology«

9:30 - 10:30
SUBSTRATES
• Joachim Deubener, Technical University Clausthal, Germany
(confirmed)
»Glass for TF PV«
• Patrick van Bortel, AGC, Japan (confirmed)
»Requirements for the use of glass in TF module production«
• Jens Eckstein, Stangl (confirmed)
»Chemical treatment (washing, buffer layers) of
glass substrates«

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee-Break

11:00 - 12:30
ABSORBERS
• Rutger Schlatmann, PVcomB, Germany (confirmed)
»Different absorber materials for TF PV«
• Takeshi Haginouchi, Ulvac, Japan (confirmed)
»PECVD for a-Si and micromorph technology«
• John Patrin, Veeco, USA (confirmed)
»PVD«
• Dieter Schmid, Centrotherm, Germany (confirmed)
»RTP diffusion for chalcopyrite thin films«
• Paul Stockman, Linde, Germany (confirmed)
»Going green with fluorine: Sustainable chamber cleaning for PECVD processes«

12:30 - 13:15
Lunch

13:15 - 14:30
TCOs + SCRIBING
• Richard Menner, ZSW, Germany (confirmed)
»Status on TCO research«
• Dietmar Paul, von Ardenne, Germany (confirmed)
»Equipment for TCO production«
• Christoph Simons, Heraeus, Germany (confirmed)
»Sputtering performance of planar and rotateble ZnO:Al targets«
• David Clark, Newport Corporation, USA (confirmed)
»Laser and scribers for TF PV applications«

14:30 - 15:15
ENCAPSULATION
• Bernd Koll, Kuraray, Japan (confirmed)
»Encapsulation for TF modules«
• Dagmar Metzger, Bürkle, Germany (confirmed)
»Lamination of TF modules using multistack-laminators«

15:15 - 15:45
Coffee-Break

15:45 - 16:30
AUTOMATION + FACTORY PLANNING
• Andreas Reischl, Schiller, Germany (confirmed)
»New integrated logistics and automation concept for mass production of thin-film solar cells«
• Roland Sturm, acp-IT, Germany (confirmed)
»Material flow simulation of TF production lines –
results & benefits«
• Nader Mottahedin, IB Vogt, Germany (confirmed)
»Designing TF factories – case studies«

16:30 - 17:30
PROMISING NEW TF MANUFACTURES
• Brian Murphy, PrimeStar Solar, USA (confirmed)
»CdTe«
• Paul Mogensen, Avancis, Germany (confirmed)
»CIS«
• Stanley So, Anwell, China (confirmed)
»a-Si«
• Chin-Yao Tsai, Auria, Taiwan (confirmed)
»Micromorph«

17:30 - 18:15
PANEL DISCUSSION:
»Thin films hit harder by financial crisis – What to do?«
• Robert Gattereder, Oerlikon, Switzerland (confirmed)
• Dietmar Roth, Roth & Rau, Germany (confirmed)
• Ryan Boas, PHOTON Consulting, USA
• Hartmut Gross, Centrotherm, Germany