Future market: photovoltaic industry

There are numerous possibilities for laser source manufacturers as well as laser equipment manufacturers in the photovoltaic market. On one side there are structuring steps unavoidable in thin film photovoltaic production, incorporating numerous small lasers per module production line. On the other there is a huge variety of possible laser processes in crystalline silicon photovoltaic, where it is only a matter of time until the first laser processes make their way into process sequences for higher efficient solar cells.