The same lean design philosophy that has made Intevac the market leader in hard disk drive processing equipment extends to solutions for solar cell manufacturing. The HDD and photovoltaic (PV) industries share the same stringent requirements and Intevac has the proven ability to meet them. Our LEAN SOLAR™ thin film manufacturing platform offers a low initial capital cost, low-cost per substrate, high uptime, precise, repeatable, multi-layer, double-sided deposition capability and extendibility for changing technology. NanoVista™ is our revolutionary photoluminescence inspection system that combines extremely high throughput capabilities with high resolution inspection. NanoVista can be used for in-line cell inspection or off-line research and development. Intevac’s innovative PV systems can help our solar manufacturing customers produce high efficiency, low-cost products.
