Euflex Technology Corp_RES/Ebner - furnace solutions for CIGS?CIS?CATS?CdTe and other organic/inorganic thim film
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RES

Profile

ABOUT RES: Renewable Energy Solutions:

Offers complete furnace solutions for thin-film:


RES is a division of EBNER Industrieofenbau formed to address the specific heat treatment needs of the thin-film PV industry. Below is some background information about EBNER and RES:




  • EBNER was established in 1948 and remains a privately owned company

  • EBNER is the world-wide technological leader in providing equipment for controlled atmosphere annealing and heat treatment in the metals industry

  • 60+ year experience in design and fabrication of industrial furnace/ vacuum heat processing equipment

  • 6 -8% of turnover for R&D (process development, prototyping, test stands, component testing, etc)

  • EBNER offers continuous and batch type process equipment, e.g. for stainless steel strip and foil, copper alloy strip and foil, carbon steel strip, aluminum strip and foil

  • Approx. 1.000 employees at 3 manufacturing locations in Austria, USA and China


OUR TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE:
  1. For large area thermal processing of thin-film absorbers
    • combination of multiple heat transfere methods in one tool
    • Controlled process gas flow corrosive or reactive process atmospheres
    • Process gas and/or heat recovery systems
    • Atmospheric selenium vaporizer and condenser system
    • Roll-to-roll or discrete continuous rapid thermal processing (RTP) designs
    • Substrate material handling, including web steering and tension control
  2. WORKING TOGETHER with you from lab to industrial scale 
    • Test annealing of customer material
    • Full collaboration in developing thermal equipment for processing absorber layers on flexible or rigid substrates
    • Leveraging existing designs for cost effective and consistent production operation
    • Very high emphasis on engineering of safe and reliable equipment
    • in-house fabrication of mechanical, electrical and controls/automation
    • Large pool of in-house technical resources and specialists for professional execution of your equipment order
Product:
  1. FURNACE SOLUTIONS FOR�
  2. various semiconductor absorber layers:
    • CIGS
    • CZTS
    • CdTe
    • Thin crystalline silicon
    • Other organic/inorganic semiconductors
    • Other materials such as:
      • Superconductor
      • Fuel cell

    Different process steps:
    • Heat treatment/annealing
    • Crystallization
    • Selenization
    • Drying and Sintering
    • Activation
  3. Auxiliary equipment:
    • Vapor source
    • Exhaust gas trap/condenser
    • Process gas recovery
    • Substrate handling systems
      • Multiple metal experience � stainless steel, aluminum, copper
      • Sliding contact or suspension between rollers

For more detail, please see www.re-solutions.cc/ or contact with us.

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