Featured in Fast track to high power – 05-2021

New era of thin films calls for PVD

A rethink is required for the mass production of high-efficiency solar cells, says German PV cell production equipment supplier Von Ardenne. And it’s not just TOPCon and heterojunction PV where physical vapor deposition (PVD) processes can be applied in production, but also in perovskite-crystalline silicon cell manufacturing, says Sebastian Gatz, the business head for photovoltaics at Von Ardenne.
Jonathan Gifford
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Jonathan Gifford
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  It’s not quite clear how the technology landscape will form in solar cell production between TOPCon and heterojunction (HJT) in 2021. As a production equipment supplier, what’s your take on the way the technological race between the two technologies is panning out? At Von Ardenne, we believe that PVD [physical vapor deposition] processes can …

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