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thinner layers would: reduce materials availability issues for Te and In; reduce materials costs for these costly elements; and allow faster deposition times, reducing capital, maintenance, energy input, and equipment footprint costs. 4. Single-junction a-Si efficiency and deposition rates should be enhanced to provide support to the aggressive “factories of factories” approach given in the HP-Keshner (2004) study for multi-GW thin film manufacturing. 5. Lower-cost CIS processing methods should receive greater emphasis. 6. Low-cost barrier layers to protect semiconductors should be investigated to reduce encapsulation costs. 7. Materials utilization rates should be a priority when expensive elements such as Te and In are used. 8. Temperature-resistant, non-conductive substrates should be investigated if they can provide an alternative for roll-to-roll deposition and simultaneously act as encapsulation (e.g., such as glass does now). Our FY 2005 subcontract activities are already being modified to reflect these more precise priorities. 3. Results and Accomplishments The Thin Film PV Partnership supported the transition to successful first-time manufacturing of key thin-film technologies during the fiscal year. This is our most important activity in the short term, because it will help establish thin films in the marketplace; improve their chances of future growth and success; and help define the transition of technologies that have been successfully developed by DOE funding to the private sector. This evolution has been over two decades in the making and is not yet accomplished. However, with the substantial growth in CY 2004 to about 20 MW (from only 12 MW in the United States in the prior year), thin films are entering this important transition. Based on surveys of the Partnership’s Technology Partners, it is expected that this may again double in CY 2005 to about 50 MW of annual U.S. production. If so, this will indicate the arrival of these key, potentially lower-cost technology options—and even the resumption of U.S. leadership in the PV marketplace (because thin films may take a leading role, going forward). These would be major accomplishments. 25 20 15 10 5 0 1996 1999 2002 2005 Fig. 1. Megawatts of PV module manufacturing in the United States, broken down by thin-film technology. A survey of the Partnership’s Technology Partners suggests that U.S. thin-film manufacturing is going through a major growth period, and new thin films are joining amorphous silicon in the marketplace (FY 2004 is preliminary data; FY 2005 is planned sales). The Partnership had several management accomplishments of note during the fiscal year. The most important was our Partnership subcontract recompetition LOI. We received 47 proposals and presently plan to fund about 20 (down from 34 in past years). The lower level is due to our expected reduced levels of funding availability. In addition to handling the recompetition in a timely manner, we reduced our existing subcontract spending rates to meet DOE guidance, despite having to act within the limitations of contractual agreements. This approximate 20% reduction was achieved such that by year-end we had managed our lower budget within +0.006% of the required lower level. We also participated in ongoing ES&H challenges that affect our technologies, especially those with cadmium and selenium. We worked a-Si CIS CdTePDF Image | FY 2004 ANNUAL REPORT DOE Solar
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