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071127 Solar Power with lasers: Light up your World

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The future today Driven by the shortage of fossil fuels and increasing environmental pollution photovoltaics is significantly gaining importance in energy generation. Extensive government subsidies in great industrial nations have triggered its growth. Also more and more producers of solar cells appear on the market investing into modern large scale production plants. In order to reduce production costs per Wp intensive efforts have been made to increase efficiency in fully-automated fabrication lines with high throughput. Independent of the solar cell concept lasers have always been taken into account in the development of new production processes. In some cases there is a strong competitive situation with one or two alternative technologies but in many cases no other tool can compete with the speed and precision of the laser. With a variety of CO2 Nd:YAG disc diode and q-switch lasers ROFIN provides the world’s widest range of lasers for almost every application. With headquarters in Hamburg (Germany) and Plymouth/Detroit and 25 subsidiaries worldwide ROFIN is always close to their customers – we are where you are…..



 

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