Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 2002. Conference Record of the Twenty-Ninth IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7471-1
DOI :
10.1109/PVSC.2002.1190953
