DOUBLE-SIDED REUSABLE TEMPLATE FOR FABRICATION OF SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATES FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC CELL AND MICROELECTRONICS DEVICE MANUFACTURING

摘要

This disclosure presents manufacturing methods and apparatus designs for making TFSSs from both sides of a re-usable semiconductor template, thus effectively increasing the substrate manufacturing throughput and reducing the substrate manufacturing cost. This approach also reduces the amortized starting template cost per manufactured substrate (TFSS) by about a factor of 2 for a given number of template reuse cycles.