Thin Films are all around, bringing value to our daily life
The future of ophthalmic glass, flat glass or avanced optics is driven by thin films coatings to improve the existing products. For vision comfort, energy efficiency, display or astronomy, glass coatings are to make our life better.
For both silicon and thin film photovoltaics technologies, the complexity of the cells structure is increasing to improve energy conversion. Innovative heterogenous stacks of thin materials are currently used to improve the cells efficiency (Silicon, CIGS, CdTe...) or develop new products (Organic, Flexible...).
To increase functionalities, decrease power consumption and reach higher performances, the semiconductor industry vertically stacks IC's. Bonding heterogenous materials with unprecedented dimensions became an ordinary run of things.