Progress in PV technology development under the New Sunshine Program JFY1997-2000-solar cell manufacturing technology

Author

Aratani, Fukuo ; Kuriyagawa, Satoru ; Kato, Shinji ; Sakai, Soichi ; Hayashi, Fumiaki ; Nishimura, Takao ; Shino, Kiyoshi ; Ogawa, Ken-Ichiro

Author_Institution

Solar & Wind Energy Dept., New Energy & Ind. Technol. Dev. Organ., Tokyo, Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

19-24 May 2002

Firstpage

1722

Lastpage

1724

Abstract

Triggered by the oil crisis in the early 1970s, the Sunshine Project was launched in 1974 as a national program to develop oil-alternative energy sources. New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) was established to implement it in 1980. Renamed the New Sunshine Program in 1993, it was concluded in 2000. Developments of manufacturing technologies were performed for thin film solar cells and compound solar cells during the four years of JFY1997-2000 under the program. Numerous positive results regarding them were reported.

Keywords

semiconductor device manufacture; semiconductor thin films; solar cells; NEDO; New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization; New Sunshine Program; PV technology development; compound solar cells; solar cell manufacturing technology; thin film solar cells; Costs; Crystallization; Gallium arsenide; Manufacturing industries; Photovoltaic cells; Semiconductor thin films; Sputtering; Substrates; Transistors; Wind energy;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2002. Conference Record of the Twenty-Ninth IEEE

ISSN

1060-8371

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7471-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.2002.1190953

Filename

1190953