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TUBITAK - Marmara Research Center, Fotonic Technologies Laboratory
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- deposition systems and equipments for the fabrication, development and characterization of photovoltaic cell and modules.
Technical Info
Marmara Research Center (MRC) is the top national research laboratory in Turkey. MRC established by Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) at 1972 in Kocaeli. TUBITAK MRC has 7 institutes and 982 employees focusing on industry oriented R&D activities including solar energy research in Materials Institute Solar Energy Technologies Research Laboratory. Laboratory utilizes distinctive deposition systems and equipments for the fabrication, development and characterization of photovoltaic cell and modules. Organisation of workshops and conferences about solar energy.
Main Lab activities
- Development of heterojunction solar cells
- Development of crystalline silicon modules (Standard/back contacted)
- Characterisation of solar cells and related materials,
- Improvement of light management in thinner wafers,
- Improvement of low temperature screen printing pastes and post process,
- Replacement of ITO with other TCO's,
- Exploiting new cell architectures using wide band gap films, post annealing procedures integrated with topology optimization
- Interconnection technologies in standard and back contacted solas Modules
- Outdoor performance test
MAIN TECHNICAL FEATURES:
- PECVD-UHV: 3 chamber, wafer/glass size: 100mm round or 4” square, dedicated for heterojunction solar cells
- PECVD-HV: Single chamber with Load Lock , Glass size: 4” square, dedicated for TF solar cells
- TCO Sputtering: pulsed-DC, DC and RF sputtering of TCO’s upto 6” round substrates.
- Screen printing and thermal curing: For the development of 6” solar cell
- Solar cell tabber and stringer: For 2-3 BB solar cells, 900cell/hour throhput
- Solar laminator: Industrial sized laminator with cold press, 4X60 solar cell modules at a time, 44MW/year capacity
- Electroluminescence: for solar cells and modules
- Outdoor test field: 72 modules in 4 different configuration inc. BIPV and roof integrated configuration
LIMITATIONS OR CONSTRAINTS :
- Work should be based on a project or a service.
TYPICAL SERVICES OR RESULTS
- Material and device production, testing and characterisation services possible based on collaboration opportunities.
Equipment & Instruments
Atomic force Microscopy (AFM)
Combined Tabber Stringer (CTS)
Electroluminescence imaging test for Solar cells
Electron beam physical vapor deposition (e-beam)
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR)
High Resolution Electron Microscopy (HREM)
High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
IR-VIS-NIR Spectroscopy
Laser ablation/scribing processing station
Lock-in amplifier
Open tube furnace
Optical microscopy
Outdoor Solar irradiation (GHI,DHI,DNI), Solar Spectral Irradiance and climate Station
Outdoor test facility for Energy rating/performance evaluation of PV modules
Photolitography and clean room processes
Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour deposition (PECVD)
PV module Electroluminescence
Raman/MicroRaman Scattering Spectroscopy
Scanning electron microscopy (SEM)
Scanning Electron Microscopy coupled with Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDX)
Scanning tunneling microscope (STM)
Screen Printing an thermal curing Station
Secondary ion mass spectroscopy (SIMS)
Spectral Response for Solar cells
Spin coating
Sputtering DC, RF
UV-VIS Variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry (VASE)
Vacuum laminator for materials and solar cells
Vacuum laminator for PV Modules
X-ray powder diffraction (XRD)
