Conference and Presentation Material

Solarcon/Semicon China, 16th-18th March 2010, Shanghai

Download icon Green Processes for Low Cost and High Productivity, Bertrand Le Faou (English and Chinese) (PDF 852 KB)



Thin Film US Conference, San Francisco, 2/3 December 2009

Download icon Reducing $/Wpof Thin Film Si Through Materials Cost, Scale and Technology - Anish Tolia (PDF 636 KB)



From Grid Parity to Green Parity, EUPVSEC, Hamburg, September 24th 2009

Download icon Planning sustainability - through facility design (M&W Zander) (PDF 1.94 MB)

Download icon Planning sustainability - through equipment selection (Oerlikon) (PDF 474 KB)

Download icon Planning sustainability- through materials strategies (Linde) (PDF 235 KB)

Download icon Planning sustainability - through process control (IPA Fraunhofer) (PDF 246 KB)



Download icon Delivering sustainability - Crystalline manufacturing (Suniva) (PDF 1.61 MB)

Download icon Delivering sustainability - Thin film silicon manufacturing (Malibu) (PDF 647 KB)

Download icon Delivering Sustainability - learnings from Semiconductor manufacturing, standards and industry collaboration (SEMI) (PDF 861 KB)



Intersolar North America, San Francisco, July 14th-16th 2009

Download icon Peter Owen, head of Linde Electronics, discusses all things solar during an interview at Intersolar North America. (PDF 77 KB)

Download icon Photovoltaics Roundtable Discussion Video ( 22 MB)

Download icon Large Scale Thin Film Silicon-Scalable Solutions for Dedicated Production of Critical Gases on the Cost Reduction Roadmap (PDF 7.8 MB)



Intersolar Europe, Munich, May 27th-29th 2009

Download icon Going Green with On-Site Generated Fluorine: Sustainable Cleaning Agent for PECVD Processes (English Only) (PDF 837 KB)



3rd SNEC PV Power, Shanghai, May 6-8th 2009

Download icon Sustainable Solutions for Cost Reduction in Solar Manufacturing, Cheryl Chan (PDF 391 KB)

Download icon Going Green with On-Site Generated Fluorine: Sustainable Cleaning Agent for PECVD Processes, (English and Chinese) (PDF 1 MB)



Thin Film Industry Forum, (Solarpraxis), Berlin, April 2009

Download icon A Gas Supplier's Perspective, A. Weisheit, Linde Nippon Sanso. (PDF 500 KB)



PV Fab Manager's Forum, Dresden, Germany, March 2009

Download icon A Supply Chain Technology Roadmap, Dr Chris Case (PDF 891 KB)



'Meeting the Challenges of the Gigawatt Fab' seminar, EU PVSEC, Valencia, September 2008

Download icon The emergence of the Gigafab - Noel Leeson, President Linde Electronics (PDF 404 KB)

Download icon Methods and Considerations in Designing and Building a Gigawatt Fab. - Michael Kostwold, Turner and Townsend (PDF 119 KB)

Download icon The Role of Gases in the Gigafab World - Andreas Weisheit, Linde Market Development Manager, Solar (PDF 913 KB)

Download icon The Solar Glass Challenge - Hans Mahrenholtz, Linde Gas (PDF 417 KB)



Intersolar North America, San Francisco, July 2008

Download icon The Changing role of Gases - Anish Tolia, Linde Market Development Manager, Solar (PDF 477 KB)

Related News and Published Papers / Articles

Fluorine Related Topics:



Climate Friendly thin-Film PV (article appearing in Photon magazine, Nov 2009).

Download icon A new study suggests that fluorine gas is a compelling alternative to Nitrogen Trifluoride. (PDF 352 KB)



Linde/Malibu white paper/poster presentation on practical fluorine application in PV fabrication.

Download icon Application Of Fluorine Source To Chamber Cleaning (PDF 410 KB)



Cell Award Winners

Linde Wins Green Solar Manufacturing Award



On-Site Generated Fluorine: Sustainable Cleaning for CVD Processes

Download icon Energetica India article from May/June 2009 edition (PDF 101 KB)



Carbon Footprint of PECVD Chamber Cleaning

Download icon PV International article by Martin Schottler (M&W Zander) and Mariska de Wild-Scholten (ECN Solar Energy) (PDF 664 KB)



Cleaning with Fluorine, Poster Presentation, EU PVSEC Valencia 2008

Download icon Fluorine - a sustainable chamber cleaning solution (PDF 150 KB)



Replacing NF3 with F2

Making LCD TV and solar cell production environmentally friendly



Weiss study

Nitrogen trifluoride in the global atmosphere



Prather study

NF3, the greenhouse gas missing from Kyoto



Other Topics:

PV tech Solar Leader's TV - from Grid Parity to Green Parity

Video - Dean O'Connor, Head of Technology at Linde Electronics, discusses the current PV market dynamics



Challenges of the Gigawatt Fab

Download icon Download the article from Photovoltaics International First Edition (PDF 800 KB)