Global PV Market Outlook 

Stefan de Haan, Principal Analyst Photovoltaics
iSuppli Deutschland

Stefan de Haan is a principal analyst for photovoltaics (PV) and is the author of numerous PV-related consulting and market research studies. Complementing his knowledge in photovoltaics, he has in-depth experience in nanotechnology, semiconductor physics, and clean room technology. In his prior post at Wicht Technologie Consulting (WTC) he was senior analyst for photovoltaics and nanotechnology. Leading the nanotechnology research team at WTC, he was the project manager of European Commission-funded nanotechnology road mapping activities and headed a variety of market studies in nanoelectronics, nanomaterials, sensor technology, and quantum information technology. Before joining WTC, de Haan worked as a senior researcher in the semiconductor and nanophysics group of the Ludwigs-Maximilians-University of Munich developing quantum mechanical nanoelectronic devices implemented in low dimensional semiconductor systems. During his studies he worked at Siemens, VLSI Technology, and at the German National Research Center for Environment and Health.

Finlay Colville, Senior Analyst
Solarbuzz

As a senior analyst at Solarbuzz, Finlay Colville is responsible for PV supply-chain dynamics, including uncovering trends on solar manufacturing. He is also a leading expert in solar photovoltaic research and provides comprehensive forecasts of the solar industry. Finlay is a frequent speaker at high-profile industry engagements and major solar industry events worldwide, and is a regular contributor to leading solar trade magazines and online newsletters.
Finlay has been active in the PV industry since 2005, bringing more than a decade of sales and global market experience to Solarbuzz. He previously served as Director of Marketing for Coherent, Inc.’s solar business unit where he managed market intelligence and product strategy for the solar sector. He holds a BSc in Physics from the University of Glasgow and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Cell Efficiencies - impact on PV installations

Mark Osborne, Senior News Editor
Photovoltaics International

Mark Osborne is currently the Senior News Editor for Photovoltaics International and PV-Tech website. He has launched multiple technology titles in print and online covering manufacturing in the automotive, shipping, semiconductor and solar sectors in a publishing career spanning three decades. Mark started blogging in 2005, the first technology editor to do so and has worked online since 1996. A veteran manufacturing technology journalist and editor, Mark has been responsible for a series of innovative formats for delivering technical content to an engineering-based audience.

Potential and limitations of quasimono technology regarding high-efficiency cell & module manufacturing

Milan ROSINA, Technology & Market Analyst in Photovoltaics
Yole Développement

Dr Milan ROSINA is analyst for photovoltaic market & technologies at Yole Développement. Yole Développement is a market research, corporate finance, technology and strategy consultancy company specializing in business areas such as photovoltaics, LED, compound semiconductors.

Before joining Yole Développement, he worked as a research scientist and a project manager in the fields of photovoltaics, microelectronics and LED. He has more than 12 years scientific and industrial experience with prominent research institutions (INP Grenoble, Fraunhofer IWS Dresden, CEA Grenoble), a photovoltaic equipment supplier (Centrotherm) and an utility company (GDF SUEZ). He was in charge of new equipment and processes development, due diligences with photovoltaic companies, photovoltaic technology and market surveys, analysis of various photovoltaic technologies and elaboration of photovoltaic roadmaps. He is the co-author of two issued patents in the field of crystalline silicon solar cell processing.

Michael Bay (1960) studied mechanical engineering at the FH Aalen.  After several positions in robotics and automation he joined teamtechnik in 2002 being responsible for the building up of the sales division in solar technology.
Today, Michael Bay is responsible for the sales in Solar Division within Europe and the coordination of turn-key production concepts worldwide.

Nigel Mason, Director
PV Consulting Ltd.

PV Consulting Limited was established by Nigel Mason in February 2008 to provide specialist expertise in photovoltaic (PV) solar electricity technology. Dr Nigel B Mason (BSc PhD CChem FRSC) has more than 28 years experience in the PV industry, the major part of which was gained with BP Solar where he was Chief Technologist before leaving in Jan 2008 to establish PV Consulting.
Following an appointment as Research Fellow at the University of Vermont, USA, Nigel Mason started his career in PV in the UK with Johnson Matthey (1981) working on the impurity specification for semiconductor materials used in the Cu2S/CdS thin film solar cell.  In 1985 he moved to BP Research and subsequently commissioned BP Solar's first screen print solar cell factory in Alcobendas, Spain.
During a three year position as Project Manager at BP Solar Australia, Nigel led the development of a manufacturing process for the Laser Grooved Buried Contact (LGBC) solar cell and then transferred the technology to production in Spain. In 1992 he returned to the UK to support the development of BP Solar's Apollo CdTe thin film technology. From 1995-2003 Nigel held various positions at BP Solar's European Technology Centre in the UK developing high efficiency crystalline silicon PV cells. This included a post as Technology Manager for the construction of BP Solar's high efficiency cell facility in Tres Cantos (Madrid).  From 2004-2007 he managed BP Solar's long-term Future Technology programme in Europe through advanced projects in leading univerities and research institutes and established a framework for portfolio management of all BP Solar's R&D activity. Nigel is a member of the Executive Committee of the Royal Society of Chemistry Energy Sector with special remit for Renewables.

High efficiency cell concepts in mass production

Jörg Horzel, Principal Scientist
imec

Jörg Horzel is Principal Scientist in the Solar Cell Technology group of IMEC since July 2010. He is head of the IMEC-Team working on industrially applicable solar cells with passivated rear sides and local rear contacts (i-PERx) Before that he worked from 2001 to 2010 for SCHOTT Solar AG (Alzenau in Germany) in the solar cell R&D department heading the diffusion process group and internal R&D programs (front side of solar cells). Prior to moving to SCHOTT Solar (former ASE GmbH) he worked in the Industrial Solar Cell group of IMEC from 1994 to 2001 and received his PhD in physics from the University of Leuven in Belgium in 1999. He has been member of scientific committee, reviewer and chairman on several European and American conferences and workshops He authored and co-authored more than 80 publications, conference contributions and patent applications. He won the best poster award on the 25th European PVSEC and 5th World conference on Photovoltaic Energy Conversion 2010 and co-authored two other best paper awards. He held the confirmed record efficiency on large area crystalline Si solar cells with printed paste contacts on three different Si materials (CZ-Si, mc-Si, EFG-Si).

Hendrikus Salemink, Founder & Managing Director
HSC Han Salemink Consulting

Hendrikus Salemink is founder and managing director of HSC Han Salemink Consulting. HSC focuses on technology and business development for photovoltaics.  HSC also offers services concerning bankability and PE. Hendrikus Salemink has a long international track record in the field of magnetic media for EDP applications and new business development with BASF in international management positions, business development for e.g. organic semiconductors, factory planning, process validation e.g. TFPV backend, SMT development for biotechnology consumables, SMT and interconnection of concentrated PV and Fresnel Lenses. Hendrikus Salemink educational background is in strategic marketing on MBA level and technical education at BASF AG, especially in the field of e.g. thin magnetic coatings for EDP applications and made first TFPV experiences with Canon Solar (a-Si on felxible substrates) in Japan, 15 years ago.

Frank Buenting, Deputy Managing Director Management Services
VDMA

After he completed his degree of industrial engineering at the University of Darmstadt, he led the industrial research project “Quality management in product a process planning”. Since 1995 Dr. Bünting is responsible for quality management in the VDMA in Frankfurt. In 2004 he became head of the working group “Life cycle cost”. During his leadership the VDMA-Standard 34160 “Forecasting model for life cycle cost estimation” was published in 2005. Gradually he was more and more involved in national an international research project about Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and Life Cycle Costs (LCC) with companies like Daimler, VW, Wittenstein, Gebr. Heller, MAG, centrotherm, Siemens, Komatsu, Schaeffler Technologies and Festo Tools.

Peter Dold, Head of the Fraunhofer Center for Silicon Photovoltaics - Laboratories for Crystallization Technologies (CSP-LKT)
Fraunhofer CSP

Education:
1991 Diploma in Crystallography / Mineralogy at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg; Grade 1.3. 1995 Ph. D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in Crystallography at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg Grade: 1.1 (summa cum laude); the thesis was honored with the Gödecke Research Award. 2003: Habilitation in Crystallography and Material Sciences. The title of the thesis was: ”Control of Fluid Flow and Segregation in Semiconductor Crystal Growth from the Melt”. The venia legendi was awarded. Research stays at the University of Tokyo/Japan (January/February 1995), at NASA Space Science Labs in Huntsville/Alabama (March/April 1996, March/April 1998), and at the NEC Fundamental Research Laboratories in Tsukuba, Japan (July - October 1997).
Professional Experience:
April 1997 to March 2003: University Assistant (German equivalent to Assistant Professor) at the Kristallographisches Institut, head of the research group “Elementary Semiconductors“. Activities included supervision of Ph.D. and master students and technicians, teaching, organizing applications for funding and management of research projects. October 2003 to Dec. 2004: Scientist at EADS Space Transportation GmbH, Germany. February 2005 to March 2007: Senior Scientist at the Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
May 2007 to April 2011: at ARISE Technologies in Waterloo, Ontario; Head of the Silicon Division, responsible for all activities related to the ARISE poly-silicon feedstock program. Since May 2011: Head of the Fraunhofer Center for Silicon Photovoltaics – Laboratories for Crystallization Technologies (CSP-LKT). The scientific results have been presented in 46 refereed publications, in 38 proceedings and non-refereed papers, and in 39 invited and 38 non-invited talks; 2 patents have been published and 3 patent applications have been filed.

Markus Fischer, Director R&D Processes
Q-Cells

Markus Fischer studied physics at the University of Technology Dresden and received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1997 from the University of Stuttgart. After working in the semiconductor industry for Siemens, Philips and NXP in different engineering and management functions he joined Q-Cells SE in 2007. As Director of R&D Processes his responsibility includes the c-Si cell process development and production support, the Q-Cells research line, as well as the Q-Cells module test line.

Axel Metz, Director R&D solar cells
Schott Solar

Axel Metz received the M. S. degree in applied physics from the Technische Universität Clausthal, Germany in 1994, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Hannover, Germany, in 2000. He performed his Ph.D research on highly efficient crystalline silicon solar cells while working at the Instiut für Solarenegieforschung Hameln/Emmerthal (ISFH). From 1998 to 2001 he headed the photovoltaics department of ISFH. Since 2002 he is with SCHOTT Solar, currently as director R&D solar cells.

Copper Plating: equipment, advantages and cost savings
Holger Kuehnlein, Teamleader R&D and Manager Backend
RENA GmbH

Chemistry Studies:1999-2004 at TU Dresden. Diploma Thesis: „Influence of Magnetic Fields on Electrochemical Reaction in Microstructures“ at Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry (Prof. Waldfried Plieth, Dr. Andreas Bund). PhD Thesis:2004-2007 Berlin; Scholarship of Atotech GmbH „Electrochemical Alloydeposition of Cu2ZnSnS4for thin film Applications“ at Atotech GmbH Berlin. 2007-08 Productmanager Electroplating at RENA GmbH, since 2008 Team Leader R&D and Productmanager Backend.

David Jimenez, President
Wright Williams & Kelly, Inc.

Mr. David Jimenez has over 30 years of industrial experience including positions with Mobil Oil, NV Philips, and General Signal.  He holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA in Finance.  He began his cost of ownership (COO) modeling work in 1986 when he developed Ultratech Stepper’s initial COO software. 

For the last 20 years, he has led Wright Williams & Kelly, Inc. (WWK), a company dedicated to the development of software tools and consulting services for operational cost management and productivity improvement.  He is currently on assignment as Chief Operating Officer at Sun Synchrony, a high concentration photovoltaics (HCPV) startup headquartered near Silicon Valley.

In 1992, at the request of Semiconductor Equipment & Materials International (SEMI), Mr. Jimenez developed the one day workshop “Understanding and Using Cost of Ownership.”  The course has been offered continuously since then by SEMI in conjunction with SEMICON tradeshows.  In combination with SEMI and industrial sponsors, David has trained over 5,000 professionals in COO from a variety of industries including: semiconductors, photovoltaics (PV), flat panel displays (FPD), nanotechnology, micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS), thin film record heads, magnetic media, and solid state lighting/light emitting diodes (SSL/LED).

In 1994, WWK was contracted by SEMATECH to develop the next generation of COO software.  David was responsible for the design and development of what has become the semiconductor industry’s de facto software standard in COO modeling, TWO COOL®.  He also holds a patent for his work on PRO COOL® for Wafer Sort & Final Test.  Simultaneous to his COO development work for SEMATECH, Mr. Jimenez was also a major contributor to the initial development of SEMI COO Standard E35 and has continued to aggressively support the Standards program.  Mr. Jimenez received the Texas Instruments (TI) Supplier Excellence Award in 1996 for WWK’s TWO COOL® software and training support of TI’s goal to reduce manufacturing costs.

Over the past decade, Mr. Jimenez has been actively supporting the burgeoning and, later, rapidly growing PV industry.  WWK’s installed base in PV includes all of its major products ranging from COO modeling to full factory product costing to discrete-event simulation while its customers now span equipment and materials suppliers to turnkey factory suppliers to device manufacturers.

Mr. Jimenez has also authored numerous productivity and cost management articles including published papers on PV cell (doping, texturization, screen printing) and module manufacturing.  He has also been an invited speaker at PV events sponsored by the American Vacuum Society and others.

David Bouldin, Principal
Fab Consulting

Fab Consulting was established by David Bouldin in 2007 to provide expertise in process and equipment engineering; performance metrics for improving equipment reliability, availability, maintainability, productivity (RAMP), utilization, and cost of ownership (COO); cost modeling and reduction; equipment and process documentation; and SEMI Standards.  He has more than 38 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, the majority of which was with Texas Instruments (TI) where he was an engineering project manager reporting directly to a vice-president before his retirement.

Mr. Bouldin initially began working in CMOS semiconductor R&D for NASA in 1973 and joined TI in 1978 in the Semiconductor R&D Laboratory (SRDL).  At TI, he worked in various bipolar and CMOS semiconductor R&D groups and the Manufacturing Science and Technology Center (MSTC) in a wide variety of process and equipment development engineering and leadership positions.  He was a Member Group Technical Staff and has been granted two patents in semiconductor process technology. 

Prior to leaving TI, he worked in the Silicon Technology Development (SiTD) group responsible for TI’s advanced CMOS logic technologies.  He was responsible for developing and managing TI’s worldwide COO modeling strategy and activities (including teaching COO modeling classes to more than 250 TIers worldwide), wafer manufacturing and test equipment purchase specifications, approved equipment/materials/contamination control databases, and various business process (e.g., supply chain) reengineering projects.  He also served on multiple TI technology leadership teams and the Wafer Fab Equipment Engineering Council.  He was TI’s primary representative on SEMI Standards metrics-related activities and SEMATECH’s Cost Modeling Users Group as well as representing TI on the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) activity for several years.

Mr. Bouldin began working on SEMI Standard activities in 1993 and has served as co-chair of the SEMI North America (NA) Metrics Technical Committee since 1996.  He currently co-leads the Equipment Cost of Ownership (COO) Task Force, which just successfully revised the two COO-related SEMI Standards E35 and E140.  He also actively participates on several other task forces including the Equipment RAMP Task Force and the Equipment Training and Documentation Task Force.  He is a voting member of the SEMI NA Regional Standards Committee (NARSC), the Technical Editors Board, and one of two NA representatives on the Regulations Subcommittee.  He received the SEMI NA Standards Corporate Device Member Award in 1999, the Technical Editor Appreciation Award in 2000, and the Leadership Award in 2005. 

Mr. Bouldin received his B.S. in Physics and Math with a minor in Electrical Engineering from Tennessee Technological University.  He also received three Business Certificates in Leadership, Strategy, and Execution from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004-2006.

Iryna Buchovska, HEad of R&D Department
Pillar Ltd.

Iryna Buchovska had her Master degree in Molecular Physics and Physics of Liquid Matter in Kiev National University. During 2003 she was working in Neutron and Molecular Physics in Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna (Russia). In 2004-2006 she was doing research in Molecular Physics of Liquid and Solid Matter in Kiev National University. Iryna has been working at Pillar LTD since 2006. Started from technologist she is the Head of R&D Department of Pillar Group since 2008.

Wolfgang Herbst, Director Market & Technology Research 
centrotherm

Dr. Wolfgang Herbst is in charge of Market & Technology Research at centrotherm photovoltaics AG. He studied physics at the University of Kaiserslautern and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and received a PhD in thin film solar cell device physics. He has a background of over 12 years in photovoltaics and many years of experience in research and technology development. Prior to joining centrotherm photovoltaics he was working with a globally acting semiconductor equipment manufacturer for about 10 years. In various managing positions he has been responsible for the development of new process technology and new applications and also involved in equipment development and design.

 Asian PV Manufacturing Technology Outlook

Jonathan Pickering, President
JA Solar Americas

Mr. Jonathan Pickering is the President of JA Solar, Americas Region and Vice President of JA Solar. JA Solar Holdings Co., Ltd. (Nasdaq: JASO) is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high-performance solar cells and solar power products.

Jonathan joined JA Solar from California-based Lumeta Inc., a subsidiary of DRI Companies. As General Manager and Executive Vice President of Lumeta he led the development and commercialization of Lumeta's PowerPly solar module designed for commercial rooftop applications. He was responsible for all aspects of the Lumeta business, including establishing partnerships with leading solar project developers and integrators in the US and Europe. Prior to joining Lumeta, Mr. Pickering spent twenty years with Applied Materials, the leading capital equipment provider for the semiconductor, display and solar industries, where he served as Vice President and Head of Global Marketing and Business Development of the Solar Business Group. He began his career in France and held management positions of increasing responsibility across the Applied Materials organization. He holds a Master of Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Surrey.

Copper Plating: process and customer experience

Han Verbunt, Research and Development
Cookson Electronics Enthone (Benelux)

Han Verbunt works currently for Cookson Electronics (Enthone) in the R&D department as well as R&D chemist. Areas he is working on are electroless nickel, EMI shielding, semiconductors, PCB and PV. Before joining Cookson he worked at the Technical University of Eindhoven as a R&D chemist.

 PV Standardization - Status & Overview

James Amano, Sr. Director Standards
SEMI

James Amano has been Director of the SEMI International Standards Program since 2008. Prior to joining SEMI, he worked as a sales engineer for Matsusada Precision, market development for the Natural Fibers Corporation, and as a trade specialist for the Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO). He holds degrees in Economics and Environmental Conservation from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

 Copper Plating: impact on fab and line layout

Lucas van den Brekel, Director Process Technology
Meco Equipment Engineers B.V.

Dr. Lucas van den Brekel graduated in Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of Delft (The Netherlands) in 1982. Subsequently, he has worked in Unilever Research & Development for 13 years in Detergents Processing. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the Technical University of Delft in 1987, in service of Unilever.

In January 1996, he joined Meco Equipment Engineers B.V. in the Process Technology Group. Meco is a global production equipment manufacturer for the semiconductor industry, as a subsidiary of the BESI holding company. In his present job, he is responsible for the operational support and chemical process development for the production and implementation of innovative Meco electro-plating equipment.