The demand for renewable energy sources increases at an exponential rate. In solar energy, huge resources are devoted to the optimization of photovoltaic cells to improve the global efficiency of solar panels. This is where the surface analytical techniques become handy because they can provide a wealth of valuable information on the purity of the material or the presence of defects. This information can then serve to improve the manufacturing process and reduce its cost.

With the support of its highly trained personnel and its leading edge equipment, GCM Lab offers high level services to optimize the products of the solar energy business.

Examples of application

• Identify contaminants
• Measure the index of refraction of an optical coating
• Identify organic contaminants on a semiconductor
• Accurately measure the thickness of c-Si, α-SiGe, α-SiGe, CdTe, ITO …
• Assess the quantity of dopant and its distribution
• Examine the orientation and the structure of a thin film