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One giant leap for CIGS thin film

CIGS thin film: In the lab, thin film modules based on copper-indium have very high efficiencies, but the capacity for mass production is only growing slowly. Now, Centrotherm offers a turnkey plant for such modules. If the firm wants to replicate the run on turnkey systems for silicon thin film, it still has to achieve some milestones.

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Michael Fuhs

14 Sep 2010

One product sold by Hartmut Gross, Centrotherm’s thin film director, weighs 800 tons. And it takes him a full twenty minutes just to walk around the first model. Overall, seventy people were involved at different stages in assembling the 60 machines, with a total of 250 components, so that they will manufacture the best possible …

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