PHOTON's 4^th PV Equipment Conference (Part 1 – c-Si)

9:00 - 9:10
CONFERENCE OPENING
Chairpersons: 
• Michael Schmela, PHOTON International (confirmed)
• Markus Steinkötter, Sunnyside upP, Germany (confirmed)

9:10 - 9:30
KEYNOTE
• Charles Gay, Applied Materials, USA (confirmed)

9:30 -10:30
INGOT & WAFERS
• Martin Syvertsen, Sintef, Norway (confirmed)
»Status and trends of crystallization/wafering«
• Peter Pauli, Meyer + Burger, Switzerland (confirmed)
»Fully integrated wafer production with recycling concept«
• Francois Henley, Silicon Genesis Corp. (SiGen), USA (confirmed)
»Kerf-less wafer production«

10:30 - 11:00
Coffee-Break

11:00 -12:15
CELL PRODUCTION + MATERIALS I
• Emmanuel van Kerschaver, Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), Belgium (confirmed)
»Challenges to produce cells using thin wafers«
• Gunnar Schubert, Crystal Clear Consortium, Europe (confirmed)
»Metallization trends for cell manufacturing«
• Bates Marshall, Sixtron, Canada (confirmed)
»Silane-free SiNx deposition«
• Ofir Baharav, Xjet, Israel (confirmed)
»Ink-jet technology: A new high-speed metallization printer«

12:15 - 13:15
Lunch

13:15 - 14:30
CELL PRODUCTION + MATERIALS II
• Malte Schulz-Ruhtenberg, Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT), Germany (confirmed)
»The use of lasers in cell manufacturing: Chances and limits«
• Michael Merscher, Jonas & Redmann, Germany (confirmed)
»The latest in automation concepts for solar cell lines«
• Peter Fath, Centrotherm, Germany (confirmed)
»Limits of the concept of very high-efficiency cell lines«

14:30 - 15:30
MODULE PRODUCTION + MATERIALS
• Harry Wirth, Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE), Germany (confirmed)
»Status and trends of solar module manufacturing«
• Jürgen Heller, Schmid Group, Germany (confirmed)
»From the single cell to the fully controlled and connected module matrix, in one unit«
• Gaёtan Borgers, Dow Corning, USA (confirmed)
»Inline encapsulation process based on silicone«

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee-Break

16:00 - 17:00
QUALITY CONTROL
• Erling Fledsberg, Prediktor, Norway (confirmed)
»Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solutions in PV production lines«
• Thorsten Trupke, BT Imaging, Australia (confirmed)
»Luminescence systems for quality control of cells/modules«

17:00 - 17:45
PANEL DISCUSSION
Innovations in c-Si process and technology:
How to integrate smoothly into commercial lines?
• Frans van den Heuvel, Scheuten, The Netherlands (confirmed)
• Thomas Schmidt, TST, Germany (confirmed)
• Matthias Müller, Wacker Schott, Germany
• Sjouke Zijlstra, Arise Technologies, Germany

18:00
EXHIBITORS RECEPTION AT PV EXPO SHOW