Newport has introduced its SolaryX Edge, a laser edge deletion system for thin-film solar panel manufacturing.
The SolaryX Edge uses high-power pulsed lasers to remove amorphous silicon (a-Si), cadmium-telluride (CdTe), copper-indium-diselenide (CIS), or copper-indium-gallium-diselenide (CIGS) coatings around the perimeter of thin-film solar panels.
The optical design makes it a lower cost, higher throughput product that occupies a smaller footprint than competing laser-based systems, claims Newport.
It also eliminates consumables such as sand blasting that are required for other methods.
