Podcasts : SI On the Scene : Solar Cell Production: Mono vs. Poly Crystalline

Solar Cell Production: Mono vs. Poly Crystalline

Peter Woditsch, CEO of Deutsche Solar AG (Freiberg, Germany), talks about the company’s solar cell manufacturing operations. He describes how a Bridgman crystal growing method is used to produce the polycrystalline “bricks” of silicon that are turned in to wafers with a wire saw, and the other steps that result in solar cell modules.