Title :
High brilliance fiber lasers for the scribing of photovoltaic modules
Author :
Selleri, Stefano ; Cucinotta, Annamaria ; Poli, Federica ; Passaro, Davide
Author_Institution :
Inf. Eng. Dept., Univ. of Parma, Parma, Italy
fDate :
June 28 2009-July 2 2009
Abstract :
The aim of this paper is to present the activity related to the development of fiber laser systems for the scribing of photovoltaic modules realized by using two of the most appealing solar cell technologies, that is CdTe and CIS or CIGS based thin films. The activity is carried out by the EU funded ALPINE - Advanced Lasers for Photovoltaic INdustrial processing Enhancement - project. The consortium focuses its work on lasers realized by means of a new generation of optical fibers, that is photonic crystal fibers, which assure high brilliance, high efficiency and premium beam quality. These fiber lasers are intended to optimize all of the three laser scribing steps, called P1, P2 and P3, for both photovoltaic substrate or superstrate configurations of solar cells.
Keywords :
cadmium alloys; fibre lasers; holey fibres; laser materials processing; optical fabrication; photonic crystals; photovoltaic cells; solar cells; tellurium alloys; CdTe; high brilliance fiber laser; photonic crystal fiber; photovoltaic industrial processing enhancement; photovoltaic module scribing; solar cell technology; Computational Intelligence Society; Costs; Fiber lasers; Laser beams; Optical fibers; Photonic crystal fibers; Photovoltaic cells; Photovoltaic systems; Production; Solar power generation; fiber lasers; high brilliance; photonic crystal fibers; photovoltaic modules; scribing process; solar cells;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks, 2009. ICTON '09. 11th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Azores
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4825-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4827-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2009.5184975
