Really interesting, don't know much about CDTE cell production, Just curious, do you have a small start up working on this or is it mostly theoretical at this point (or are you doing this as part of your day job at a larger company)? I did a bunch of thin/thicker films in grad school and post-doc times and now work on thicker porous films.
I'm a junior in college and hoping I'm can get a prototype out before the end of the summer.
I've worked with other PVD systems yet I have not constructed my own. The main goal of this system is to make this sort of thing accessible to as many people as possible for the lowest amount of cost.
As it stands right now I'm learning machining to actually build most of this thing from scratch as I don't have the money to get this machined from from a job shop.
