"PV TEAM": PhotoVoltaic Technologies, Equipments, Application & Materials

Table of Contents

Executive summary

Market description and forecast

• Technology segmentation
• Comparison between technologies
• Market forecast with technological breakdown2005-2015
• Technologies market shares 2005-2015
• Silicon supply status
• Market segmentation
• Dynamic of the segmentation
• Value chains and business models
• Wafer based
• Thin films
• Focus on main players
• 2007 top ten
• SHARP
• Q-Cells
• Solarworld
• Added value chain
• Wafer based
• Thin films
• Food chain investment forecasts

Technologies and process

(Si Wafer based, thin Si wafer based, a-Si, a-Si/ƒÊSi, CIS/CIGS, CdTe, III-V, DSSC, Organic)

• Descritpion of architecture
• Production flowchart
• Descritpion of production steps
• Players
• Equipments
• Materials

Segment / technologies

• Status and analysys of 2006 situation
• Estimation and analysis of 2010 and 2015 situations

Industrial park estimation

• Assumptions
• Mature PV manufacturing equipments:(Wet bench, Diffusion furnace, Screen printers, PECVD (SiNx), Sputtering (SiNx), PECVD for thin films deposition, Laser scribers, Sputter for TCO deposition, MOCVD)
  • Global park estimation 2007
  • Estimated annual demand in equipment 2007-2015
  • Technical characteristics
  • Raw material suppliers
  • Equipment manufacturers
  • Main customers
  • Competitive technologies
• New equipments (MBE, Lithography)
  • Equipment manufacturers
  • Main customers
  • Issues
  • Competitive technologies
• Glass market estimation for PV in 2015

List of Charts

• PV technolgies comparison efficiency/stability/market status
• Important players per business model in wafer based technologies
• Important players per business model in thin film technologies
• Top 12 silicon manufacturers in 2009
• Sharp production capacity evolution
• Q-Cells (and subsidiaries) production capacity evolution
• Solarworld production capacity evolution
• Analysis and evolution of PV market structure (market segments, technologies) 2006, 2010, 2015
• Requested investment for up scaling production

List of figures

• PV investment forecast
• PV technologies segmentation
• PV market forecast with technology breakdown 2005-2015
• PV technologies market shares forecast 2005-2015
• 2007 Top ten PV players estimation
• Wafer Based technology added value chain analysis ($/Wp)
• Wafer based technology module price forecast 2002-2015 ($/Wp, cumulated production)
• Thin film technologies added value chain analysis ($/Wp)
• Thin film technologies module price forecast 2002-2015 ($/Wp, cumulated production)
• Wafer based PV technology flow chart
• Thin wafer based PV technology flow chart
• a-Si and a-Si / ƒÊ-Si flow charts
• CIS/CIGS flow charts
• DSSC general flow chart
• Estimation of annual machine demand until 2015 in studied equipment
• Technology breakdown and estimation of glass demand for PV in 2015