Daniel Tune, Torsten Rössler, Gernot Oreski, Carolyn Carriere, Christina Kaiser, Tudor Timofte, Nils Klasen, Julian Weber, Bengt Jäckel, Stephan Großer, Matthias Pander, Marko Turek, Marco Galiazzo, Ignacia Devoto, Thomas Fischer, Ingo Ullmann, Dominik Rudolph & Andreas Halm
International Solar Energy Research Center ISC Konstanz, Germany; Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Freiburg, Germany; Polymer Competence Center Leoben PCCL, Leoben, Austria; French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission CEA, France: Institute for Applied Materials – Materials and Biomechanics IAM-WMB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, Germany; Fraunhofer Center for Silicon Photovoltaics CSP, Halle (Saale), Germany; Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, California, USA; Faculty of Natural Sciences II, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany; teamtechnik GmbH, Freiberg, Germany
With mature product offerings now available from several of the leading industrial PV equipment and tool manufacturers, and latest-generation ECAs available from suppliers, this article aims to provide important background information on ECAs, as well as give a brief overview of some of the challenges and cutting-edge developments in ECA-related PV applications.
