The workshop held in Ispra, Italy, the 22nd & 23rd November 2007, and co-organized by EPIA and JRC (Joint Research Center of the EC) aimed at strength the PV thin film technology and to establish it as a leading technology in the coming years through minimizing investment and material costs and maximizing product quality and productivity.

Results: The workshop was designed in order to find answers to the following questions:

• What is the status of Thin films PV?
• What is the status of and which are the technical roadmaps of the vacuum equipment and/or process suppliers?
• What are the technological achievements?
  Are there synergies in fields like glass coating or FPD production?
• What are the potential ways to reduce production cost and how to overcome them?

The results of this workshop are an important input for the Working Group “Science, technology, industry and application” of the PV Technology Platform, as well as for the EU Integrated project Performance and the recently founded association PV CYCLE which aims to create an European PV waste management system in order to collect and recycle PV modules.

Topics of the workshop:

• Potential to reduction cost: Consumption of materials, Increase of the module efficiency, Bigger deposition areas, Economies of scale
• Standardization: of the final product (size, materials, etc.), Manufacturing process (sputtering techniques, substrates used, equipment interfaces, etc.), Integration in building.
• Recycling: Adaptation to the European legislation, Introduction of a take back and recovery system of PV modules in Europe, Different techniques for recycling, Cost of collection and recycling of thin films modules vs. crystalline silicon modules
• Performance over the lifetime: taking advantage of the c-Si technology long experience, Behavior and degradation of materials, Characterized of the thin film module by measuring the electric performance in simulated sun light compared to outdoor behavior.

For more information contact:

Daniel Fraile
Scientific Officer,
d.fraile(at)epia.org
tlf: +32 2 400 10 62

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