Tim Edwards

Senior Manager, Product Marketing, MKS Spectra-Physics

Tim Edwards, now Owner of Technical Growth Marketing, LLC, was Senior Manager of Product Marketing at MKS Spectra-Physics (Milpitas, CA) from 2008 through 2011.

FIGURE 1. Consistency of individual ablation spots degrades at higher repetition rate and scan speed in a thin-film PV P2 scribe of a-Si panels using a typical DPSS Q-switched laser.

Lasers & Sources

HIGH-POWER SOLID-STATE LASERS: Lasers speed solar cell production

Rajesh Patel

July 1, 2011

A new generation of Q-switched solid-state lasers is enabling thin-film laser scribing with a new set of processing parameters: High quality scribes for amorphous-silicon thin...