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New Product: Bekaert offers turnkey solution for rotating cylindrical magnetron applications
Product Briefing Outline: Bekaert Advanced Coatings, a total solution provider for rotatable sputter technology, has developed a series of flexible and high performing sputter hardware components for rotating cylindrical magnetron applications. With these key components a customized and complete sputter solution can be worked out in close collaboration with the customer. Whether it concerns an existing coater in an upgrade/rebuild project or a new coater in a green field project, maximum flexibility can be offered for building in all critical components needed for sustaining a controlled process to realize high end products.
Top 5 new product reviews of 2008
In our first full year online, we have steadily increased the number of new products we have reviewed and also seen the new products section gain increasingly greater traffic levels throughout the year. Looking through the traffic numbers, we have identified the Top 5 most popular reviews of new products for your enjoyment.
New Product: Angstrom Sciences targets thin film deposition with rotating cylindrical magnetron
Product Briefing Outline: Angstrom Sciences has developed a rotating cylindrical magnetron assembly that is compact, economical and lightweight. By utilizing the patented technology already incorporated into other ‘Onyx’-series magnetrons, Angstrom Sciences provides a 10.6° deposition profile, 85%+ target utilization and power savings up to 20% compared to conventional cylindrical magnetrons.
New Product: Oerlikon Solar launches ‘Amorph High Performance’ thin film technology
Product Briefing Outline: Oerlikon Solar has introduced its next generation ‘Amorph High Performance’ thin film technology. Oerlikon Solar has claimed a major leap forward in panel performance by achieving more than 7% stabilized efficiency that has enabled a 16% increase in panel power output. The company said that more than 500,000 panels of the new technology have been produced. ‘Amorph High Performance’ fab capacity is also claimed to be up by more than 50% without an increase in fab cost. This has significantly raised economic viability for this high growth PV technology. Oerlikon has already been granted the requisite master certificates from TÜV.
New Product: ISOPAD Big Heating plates enable larger panel photovoltaic cells
Product Briefing Outline: Isopad has developed heating panels that offer equipment manufacturers of thin film photovoltaic cells the chance to make significantly larger cells – and lower the cost per watt of energy generated. Recent expansion of manufacturing capacity means shorter lead times & reliable delivery for these key sub assemblies.
Read more >>New Product: ABB’s IRB6640 robot meets thin-film PV class 5 cleanroom standards
Product Briefing Outline: ABB’s new IRB6640 cleanroom robot is designed to help the thin-film photovoltaic sector to improve productivity by lowering manufacturing costs, while at the same time raising production output. The new cleanroom version of the IRB6640 meets all necessary process and cleanroom specifications for the thin-film photovoltaic industry, according to ABB.
Read more >>New Product: Sputtering Materials offers higher material utilization in thin film deposition
Product Brief Outline: Sputtering Materials, Inc. is now offering high-density casted CIG (CuInGa) targets for thin film deposition in rotatable and planar form factors for thin film solar production. The casted targets offer high-density (99% +) materials that offer thin film technicians greater control and better material utilization in thin film deposition, physical vapor deposition and sputtering system processing.
