Centrotherm will present a new modular design of its c.FIRE fast firing furnace at EU PVSEC. Solar cell manufacturers can optimally configure c.FIRE for their specific process and production requirements through selecting various option packages. c.FIRE has throughput of more than 4,300 wafers, excellent temperature homogeneity and process stability.

With this centrotherm fast firing furnace, customers have access to a product that allows them to achieve maximum efficiencies while at the same time being able to use standard market as well as newly-developed metallization pastes. With its low pressure tube furnace for diffusion, centrotherm is presenting a further product highlight that significantly expands process parameter scope. The low-pressure diffusion process that centrotherm has developed achieves outstanding homogeneity at emitter resistances of up to 150 O/square, thereby enabling the efficiency potentials of conventional, and especially new, metallization pastes to be exploited.

European and Asian customers are already deploying this centrotherm technology in several production lines with a total capacity of more than 1.2 gigawatts.