Featured in Lean machines – 09-2011

Oven with pitfalls

Module quality: The lamination is one of the most critical processes in current module manufacture, as module lifetime depends on it. Markus Steinkötter from Sunnyside upP, explains why buyers must trust the producers and importers.

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Michael Fuhs

31 Aug 2011

What happens during lamination? During lamination, the cell network is baked with the help of plastic films into a weather-proof compound under vacuum and temperature. The best analogy for the layperson is with a pizza oven, only that the embedding materials melt during the lamination processes, then encase the solar cells. The air is removed …

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