Test and Measurement World, February 2010

As PV manufacturers bring new technologies into pilot production and then strive to ramp quickly to high-volume production, they will continue to tighten process windows, said Plisinski. “We see customers looking to further improve line performance by using run-to-run control technologies to compensate for the variability of tools and materials over time,” he said. “We also see PV manufacturers pushing process equipment vendors to make a greater amount of process data available to the factory to enable predictive metrology.”

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