Lasers Help Fabricate Solar’s Future
Etching, scribing and isolating are essential functions in solar cell manufacturing, and lasers play a large part in each. Solar cells turn light into electricity. So it’s fitting that electricity converted into light – a laser – plays a vital role in making solar cells. Through laser scribing, isolating and etching, many solar cells made today undergo light-driven material removal during manufacturing. Researchers are investigating ways to improve and extend these processes...
Photonics Spectra, March 2013