Fast Low Thermal Budget Large Area System for High Throughput Solar Cell Production - (Flash)

Project Information

FLASH

Grant agreement ID: ENK6-CT-2001-00529

Project closed

Start date 1 January 2002

End date 31 December 2004

Funded under

• Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002"

Total cost € 2 996 380,00

EU contribution € 1 498 189,00

Coordinated by

ENITECNOLOGIE S.P.A.
Italy

Objective

The interest of Rapid Thermal Processing (RTP) in the field of photovoltaic has already been demonstrated at a laboratory level: such systems have the potentiality of improving the throughput by reducing the thermal budget and therefore the cost, while maintaining high cell efficiency. However, presently, no industrial RTP system exists, assuring production throughput conditions. The objective of the project is to develop an industrial RTP system adapted to Photovoltaic cells production that will be applicable to all main thermal steps in the fabrication of solar cells: Rapid Thermal diffusion (RTD) Rapid Thermal oxidation (RTO) Rapid Thermal contact Firing (RTF) with the objective of a throughput of 1 cell per second (up to 30MWp/year).

Fields of science

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.

• natural sciences › chemical sciences › electrochemistry › electrolysis

Programme(s)

• FP5-EESD - Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Energy, environment and sustainable development, 1998-2002"

Topic(s)

• 1.1.4.-6. - Key action Economic and Efficient Energy for a Competitive Europe

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

CSC - Cost-sharing contracts

Coordinator

ENITECNOLOGIE S.P.A.

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Via Felice Maritano 26 ; 20097 SAN DONATO MILANESE ; Italy
• Total cost: No data

Participants (6)

ACR AUTOMATION IN CLEANROOM GMBH

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Villinger Strasse 4 ; 78078 NIEDERESCHACH
• Total cost: No data

COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Rue des Martyrs 17 ; 38054 GRENOBLE
• Total cost: No data

FRAUNHOFER GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.*

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Heidenhofstrasse 2 ; 79110 FREIBURG (IN BREISGAU)
• Total cost: No data

JOINT INDUSTRIAL PROCESSORS FOR ELECTRONICS S.A.R.L.

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Chemin du Vieux Chene 11 ; 38240 MEYLAN
• Total cost: No data

QUALIFLOW SA

France

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: 395, rue Louis Lepine ; 34935 MONTPELLIER
• Total cost: No data

RWE SCHOTT SOLAR GMBH

Germany

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: CARL-ZEISS-STRASSE 4 ; 63755 ALZENAU
• Total cost: No data