Reel to reel plating equipment for CIS and CIGS thin film solar cells

With over 30 years of experience in the field of delivering turn key plating systems for the connector, automotive and semiconductor industry, Meco is now offering turn key plating solutions for manufacturing of thin film solar cells. Based on our reel to reel continuous selective plating technology, Meco can design and build custom made reel to reel plating solutions for the production of CIS and CIGS cells. A sub-micron layer of Indium on Copper is plated or plating of Gallium Copper and Indium can be done onto a substrate with the highest uniformity possible. Also here it is key to achieve the highest efficiency and selectivity.

Traditionally the deposition of the metal layers on thin film solar cells is done by means of vacuum deposition. As opposed to the Meco system these systems require extensive vacuum systems and depending on configuration take a large amount of factory space.

Since there is no standard substrate dimension in the thin film solar industry every project will be tailored to customer specific requirements.