New Products
and clean room requirements are fulfilled. inks for use in crystalline silicon photovol- PV production: the Megasonic Atomizer.
SEI 01 will also be available in a dual lan taic cells. The S-500 series of silver-based The piezoceramic in the Megasonic atom-
configuration to handle up to 2,200 cells conductive inks allow solar cell makers to izer produces a high frequency sound wave,
per hour.
www.asys-group.com lay out front-side grid lines as narrow as 80- which is transmitted to a liquid, in order
100 microns, much thinner than the 120- to produce small drops. With a frequency
Virtual industries introduces new 175-micron width of conventional contacts. of 3 MHz, a fine fog with a droplet size of
vacuum-tweezer tool solar cell tip The S-600 series of low-bow, lead-free, approx. 3 µm is produced. The Megasonic
Virtual Industries Inc., a supplier of man aluminum-based pastes intended for back Atomizer can be used for any application
ual vacuum handling solutions, introduces surface field layers have been designed to which requires a precise liquid spray, e.g.
the Porta-Wand Elite VPWE7000AR- co-fire at temperatures compatible with the dispensing of chemicals onto semiconduc-
SOLAR-6 kit for handling solar cells or S-500 silver inks, which should simplify the tor wafers, flat panel displays and solar
flat panels up to 8 inches in size. The kit latter’s adoption.
www.fivestartech.com cells.
www.sonosys.de
includes a rechargeable cordless vacuum
wand, a recharging stand and the new precision process equipment’s flexible Viscom s2012pV—the flexible aoi
three point pick up tip VSC-250-JB. Sys- substrate plating technology system for photovoltaics
tems are available in 110 or 220 V 50/60 Precision Process Equipment’s Excellite The S2012PV is Viscom’s first dedicated
Hz. Prices start at US $1136.10 in single FSP flexible substrate plating technology optical inspection system for solar cell
quantities.
www.vacuumtweezer.com for photovoltaic manufacturing is a roll-to- production. The S2012PV is an AOI
roll, continuous strip electroplating and system for applications such as wafer mate-
ubbink econergy solar develops wet processing system designed principally rial inspection, cell characterization and
new solar assembly system for flex circuits, RFID and solar cells while final cell control. In the process, geometry,
Ubbink Econergy Solar’s FastConSole having a variety of other electronics and cracks, color, print image and micro cracks
solution is a photovoltaic mounting system metal finishing applications. The Excel- are inspected—with especially high inspec-
designed for flat-roof installations. The lite FSP is uniquely capable of handling tion depth. The modular system comes
system, which consists of tub-like contain- delicate materials without handling dam- equipped with high performance VisCam
ers placed on flat roofs, filled with gravel age frequently resulting from alternative camera technology and can be adapted to
or stones, Mounting does not require any designs. Systems have been successfully every inspection stage and for each charac-
tools: The laminates are pushed into the installed at major US firms. terization task. It guarantees consistently
included u-section fixing profiles. The
www.processpartnersinternational.com excellent quality in cell production.
product is suitable for crystalline 50-cell
www.viscom.com
laminates that measure 80 x 160 cm will be cutting-edge technology for pV
available in Q1 2009.
www.ubbinksolar.com production: the megasonic atomizer newport’s spectra-physics
SONOSYS Megasonic systems with fre- pulseo™ high peak power uV laser
Five star Technologies introduces quencies from 400 kHz to 4 MHz achieve Newport Corporation’s Spectra-Physics La-
electrosperse solar inks the removal of particles down to the nano- sers Division recently introduced the new
Five Star Technologies, a supplier of fine range from sensitive surfaces and trenches high power, high repetition rate Pulseo™
particle dispersions for functional inks, has of nano-structures. Now SONOSYS offers Q-switched diode-pumped solid state
announced its ElectroSperse S-series solar an absolute cutting-edge technology for the (DPSS) UV laser. With 20 W of output
power at 355 nm and a short pulse width
of 20 nanoseconds (ns) at a repetition rate
of 100 kHz, the Pulseo is an ideal solution
for a wide range of OEM applications
including via hole drilling, wafer scribing
and dicing, solar cell processing, and other
material processing.
www.newport.com
new high-throughput laser for uV
solar cell manufacturing
Coherent, Inc. introduces a new high-
power addition to the widely acclaimed
AVIA™ laser product line. The AVIA-
355-28 delivers output power levels to
28 W at the short ultra-violet wavelength
of 355 nm. This represents the highest
power level within its class. The new higher
power level—at 28 W—provides increased
throughput levels (reduced processing time
per wafer), aligned with the production
line capacities now demanded by solar cell
manufacturers. Existing applications such
as edge isolation and laser grooved buried
contacts stand to benefit immediately from
Virtual Industries’ Porta-Wand Elite for handling solar cells or flat panels up to 8 inches.
the incremental power level increase,
32 – Global Solar Technology – November/December 2008
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