INDEOtec SA, the Swiss plasma process equipment manufacturer, introduced ist Octopus II for front and back side coating of crystalline silicon solar cells at the EU PVSEC 2011 in Hamburg. The Octopus II is the second fully-in-house developed product of INDEOtec, conceived, manufactured and successfully tested in short time-to-market as a result of very strong research and engineering efforts.
CEO, Dr. Omid Shojaei says: We are proud that we could achieve several major milestones during the last months. Our proprietary PECVD reactor combined with the OCTOPUS II cluster machine and process technology lead to a remarkable increase of cell efficiency for c-Si solar cells, he adds.
OCTOPUS II landed out his final acceptance test in May 2013. The tool, installed at the institute of micro engineering (IMT) of the EPFL in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, aims to improve transfer of technology for silicon solar hetero-junctions and thin film silicon solar cells. This state of the art platform was developed by the INDEOtec team with focus on pilot production market.
We are extremely glad of the fruitful collaboration we have with INDEOtec and the primarily results are out-standing. We reach a perfect layer quality and screenprinted hetero-junction cells with efficiencies above 22% were achieved by the EPFL and CSEM teams within a few samples runs comments Prof. Christophe Ballif, director of the Photovoltaics laboratory at IMT-EPFL and of the newly funded CSEM PV center, a technology transfer center in the field of photovoltaics.
INDEOtec also introduces a new High Temperature PECVD reactor. The new reactor is designed to be compatible with the OCTOPUS II platform thus enhancing its versatility. This reactor can work at high temperature (450°C) which opens applications for high quality dielectric passivation, typically used for PERC, PERL crystalline Si solar cells and in general in micro electronics, active-matrix OLED and MEMS. The hightemperature reactor combines all the advantages and improved features since the development of the OCTOPUS II reactor and take them to an all-new level. Obtaining of Swiss-Made label: INDEOtec is also proud to announce the obtaining of the Swiss-Made label, symbolizing Swiss precision work, a highly-recognizable label for Swiss quality products at home and abroad.
With more than 80% of product value resulting from Swiss expertise, labor and in close collaboration with local suppliers, not only we can certify our innovative and high performance products as SWISS-Made but we also keep the price of our tools very competitive by intelligent engineering. Added values resulting from our innovations are for our customers, comments Dr. Shojaei.
