Industry Leading Solar Cell Efficiency
Spire’s solar cell turnkey lines provide lowest cost of ownership and produce highest efficiency solar cells. The solar cell factories retain a throughput of 2,400 wafers per hour which reduces the overall operating cost of a factory. The operating cost of the factory is lowered significantly by:
- Fully-automating each cell factory
- Decreasing utility consumption rate utilizing equipment with lower utility consumption rates
- Reducing wafer handling through automation
which enhances overall production yield
- Optimizing equipment utilization through
automation
- Placing cell inspection at each automated
loader/unloader
Benefits To Partnering With Spire
There are many benefits to partnering with Spire for a solar cell factory including
- Top of the line equipment selection with a proven track record
- Unprecedented solar cell and factory expertise
- Single point of contact
- Integrated process control and quality controls
- Automated robotic inspection at each loader
- Off-line sampling inspections at random
- No manual handling of wafers or cells reducing breakage
- 98% mechanical and electrical yield
- Yield enhancement tools with advanced technology options available
Solar Cell Line Options
There are many options available to further enhance a solar cell line and increase
the overall throughput.
- Multi-crystalline or mono-crystalline solar cell production
- Production capacity up to 300MW based on customer needs
- Selective Emitter Formation
- High precision screen printing including double printing
- Ink Jet printing
- Silver on silver (Ag) Light Induced Plating (LIP)
- Copper stack (Cu, Ni) plating
- Metallization Wrap Through (MWT)
- Emitter Wrap Through (EWT)
