Advances in Thin-film Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide (CIGS) Solar Power

摘要

The deposition technology developed by Global Solar Energy, Inc. (GSE) enables the manufacture of highly efficient, lightweight, flexible photovoltaic (PV) modules based on Copper Indium Gallium diSelenide (CIGS) thin-film (TF) absorbers. GSE is the only company in the world to produce commercially available CIGS modules on a flexible substrate, (see figure 1) and its manufacturing plant in Tucson, Arizona, is the world's first production facility to deposit CIGS-based TF PV on a continuous substrate using all roll-to-roll (RTR) processing.