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global revival solarindustryglobal revival facilitates innovation Dutch September 2014 PV SEC Amsterdam Our fi fth anniversary at the EU PVSEC… In the month of May, Solar Magazine celebrated its fi fth year of publication. It was at the EU PVSEC exactly fi ve years ago – how appropriate that it is in the Netherlands this year – when we fi rst made our appearance on the international stage. In 2010, we published this English-language special for the fi rst time that traditionally depicts the Dutch PV landscape in all its glory. Production vanished. The September 2010 Netherlands, just like many other PV SEC Valencia European countries, accommodated many solar cell and panel PVSEC 2010, manufacturers within its country Valencia borders in 2010, but they have almost all vanished. However, the Netherlands has not just given up. The role of the Dutch Solar Industry: Netherlands as an equipment supplier from innovation to practice for the world’s largest solar cell and solar beursspecial.indd 1 17-8-2010 9:29:45 panel manufacturers is as robust as ever. Companies like Tempress Systems, September 2011 Eurotron, SoLayTec and Levitech PV SEC Hamburg flourish in the machine building market of crystalline silicon and Smit Ovens, PVSEC 2011, partly thanks to the research collective Hamburg Solliance, in the world of thin film. Installed capacity. Equally important Innovative solar technology is that the Netherlands has at last seen from the Netherlands PV SEC 2011.indd 1 the demand for solar panels in its home 16-08-11 11:35 market gain a foothold. This summer, the one gigawatt milestone of installed 2012 September PV capacity was passed. Ambitions are PV SEC Frankfurt ECN launches considerable for the coming years. The PVSEC 2011, ambition set out is to dispose of at least Frankfurt four gigawatt by 2020, but there are new back contact also (realistic) scenarios for six and even eight gigawatt. silicon cells and modules Innovative solar technology from the Netherlands The solar factory 2.0. Dutch/European technology inside. This is the motto Back contact cells and modules are the new trend in silicon photovoltaic and that professor Wim Sinke (ECN) has 2013 September ECN is at the forefront of this trend. Come look at ECN’s latest developments been canvassing for a while now. With PV SEC Paris leading to the breakthrough of back contact in the global market. French-German, but also Dutch plans PVSEC 2013, for European manufacturing – vertically Paris Crisis-beating innovation with Dutch solar technology Higher effi ciency, lower cost integrated or not – there appears to be ECN off ers high-level expertise and technology, such as designs and a future for a European solar factory 2.0. processes for back contact cells and modules, n-type silicon cells and new Will you lend a hand? approaches for high effi ciency devices. Co-development with industry and technology transfer enable our inventions to play a key role in shaping ECN and Fraunhofer ISE will be hosting a back contact Edwin van Gastel Solar Magazine editor in chief and publisher PV SEC 2013.indd 1 today’s and tomorrow’s PV markets. workshop on 13 and 14 November in Amsterdam. 16-09-13 22:36 More information: www.backcontactworkshop.com Visit us at EU PVSEC Booth C13 ecn.nl Solar | Wind | Bio mass | Sustainable Process Technology | Policy studies 3 441036 Adv_Solar_Magazine_FC_210x297mm_02.indd 1 25-8-2014 15:49:30 CREDITS 27 thin-film solar Solar Magazine is an independent Dutch trade journal and appears four times a year with a circulation of 15,000 copies. This English edition of 3,000 copies has been published for the PV SEC. glass for solar Publisher & Editor in chief Edwin van Gastel (EG Media) 33 (E). [email protected] thermal receiver production (T). +31 63 00 848 75 Columnists 7 Wim Sinke (ECN) Our solutions: Wiep Folkerts (SEAC) Michel Weeda (N.V. BOM) thin film solar Design 17 Crystallization for CIGS Bette van Loenen (EG Media) (E). [email protected] Selenium deposition for CIGS Coverfoto: Solar Team Eindhoven 30 Activation for CdTe Editorial advisory board Michel Weeda (N.V. BOM), Paul Wyers Contact firing (ECN), Ando Kuypers (TNO) glass for solar and Arthur de Vries (Holland Solar) TCO for CdTe and thin film silicon Strengthening and toughening 21 Thermal process solutions may challenge your solar ideas. Index Partners Solar Magazine challenge us Dutch solar technology conquers the world 10 Column Wim Sinke - PV: made in Europe?! 13 Call today and we’ll explain how thermal processes can work for you Eurotron sees rising demand for rear contact cell production machines 15 www.smitovens.com • Tel: +31 499 49 45 49 • [email protected] Solliance opens new building with unique testing infrastructure 16 Translation Double Dutch, Eindhoven Smit Ovens sees order portfolio quickly fi ll up 17 Printing Tempress Systems introduces third generation n-type solar cell 21 Veldhuis Media, Raalte Dutch solar community starts large amount of new innovation projects22 Subscriptions & Advertisements Solar Magazine Levitech: ‘The ALD market will double in the coming years’ 25 (E). [email protected] (I). www.solarmagazine.nl VDL ETG launches roll-to-roll production tools 26 © EG Media 2014 - Nothing from this publication Besi delivers fi rst mass production system with plating technology 27 may be copied without permission of the publisher. The editorial staff and publisher are fully aware of SoLayTec predicts a doubled sales of ALD tools 28 their duty to ensure that the publication is as reliable as possible. Nevertheless, they do not accept any DSM solar cell foil almost ripe for commercialisation 29 responsibility for any errors in this publication. At Smit Ovens, we design and manufacture thermal process solutions for Column Wiep Folkerts - BIPV: from promise to breakthrough 32 high-volume manufacturing. With decades of experience in the glass, displays, electronics and solar industries, we’re constantly innovating. Solar Industry Register 33 Today, we focus on solar applications, acting as an expert partner to manufacturers aiming for cost-effective mass production. advertentie april 2010 A4-3.indd 1 23-04-10 10:55 Presentation of the Dutch Solar Awards on the TU Delft third at the First edition Dutch Solar FOM and UvA: ‘A layer of silicon nanocrystals and 19th of November 2014 during SundayNL Solar Decathlon 2014 Trend report published erbium ions increase the efficiency of solar cells’ In November 2014 the Dutch Solar Awards Rotterdam is the current award holder with During the Solar Decathlon 2014, the Innovation in storage systems is more A layer of silicon nanocrystals and erbium Communications. When conventional will be presented for the second time during its BIPV system consisting of three thousand Olympic Games for sustainable building, the important than innovation in building- ions may help solar cells to extract more silicon-based solar cells absorb UV light, SunDay. The organisation is delighted with solar panels. The Young Solar Award – TU Delft student team managed to win third integrated products. This is one of the energy from the ultraviolet part of the much of its energy is lost in the form of heat. the forty or so submissions it has received in currently in the hands of ALD specialist prize. With the entry Prêt-à-Loger, Home results from the first edition of the Dutch solar spectrum. Experimental physicists The researchers showed that this excess the four different categories. The Industry SoLayTec – will be presented to the most with a Skin, the Delft team was close behind Solar Trend report 2014. It is also one of from the FOM Foundation, the STW energy can be used to excite multiple erbium Development Award goes to the company promising solar start-ups in November. And, the winner Italy. The Delft team had made the primary conclusions. The first edition Technology Foundation and the University ions. This causes the ions to emit light, which that excels in the generation of an industrial finally, the Solar Thesis Award recognises the a very conscious choice to make an existing of this market research – realised through of Amsterdam published this news in Nature can then be converted into electricity. innovation. In 2012 this prize was won by University or Applied University of Sciences nineteen-sixties terrace house sustainable. a coproduction between Solar Solutions TULiPPS Solar for its COSMOS-module thesis, paper or PhD, in which the knowledge The team did this by applying a ‘second skin’, and Solar Magazine – boasts two hundred concept. The Project Development Award of solar energy enjoys the most advancement. which included a glazed construction on participating solar professionals. The report symbolizes ground-breaking collaboration You can register to attend the presentation the sun side. This construction allows the comprises more than sixty pages of data, in the field of solar energy in the form of of the Dutch Solar Awards during SundayNL house to run completely on solar energy. interpretations and recommendations. Solliance takes new building into service a completed solar project. Central Station through www.sundaynl.nl. Through opting for the adaption of an old The primary consideration from the results terrace house, the team demonstrated how of the trend report – comprising political, existing homes, of which there are 1.4 million market and technology trends – is that in the Netherlands alone, could undergo a the role of various public bodies is still Mμ opens its doors on sustainability transformation. The students criticised due to alternating policies. The presented a realistic approach here and the most important conclusion that can be the High Tech Campus Eindhoven house came out top of the newbuild and drawn from the report is that the Dutch solar top-up houses (homes with an extension) energy community wants a stable multi-year Last autumn, the Business Centre Mµ 2007 and for which demand has exceeded that the other nineteen universities had policy from the political leaders.