Silver in Photovoltaics: 2010

This report identifies and quantifies the opportunities for silver and silver products in the rapidly changing photovoltaics (PV) industry. The report consider silver inks and pastes and various hybrid materials that are used in PV; materials such as transparent conductive silver-containing composites.
With the end of the silicon shortage, crystalline silicon, for which silver is the dominant electrode material, seems less threatened by thin film PV (TFPV) than it did a year or so back. How good is this news for silver? TFPV, in its various forms, is still expected to gain share in the PV market and has yet to firm up on the electrode materials that it will use going forward. As TFPV technologies mature, will silver be a winner or loser?

This report answers these questions and many more. It also examines the potential revenues for silver in PV in the light of NanoMarkets’ revised PV projections given the current economic situation and prospects for renewable energy worldwide

Table of Contents:

Executive Summary

E.1 Why silver will continue to be used in photovoltaics
E.2 New approaches to controlling the costs of silver in the PV industry
E.3 Opportunities for silver alternatives in the PV industry
E.4 PV-related opportunities for the silver production and distribution industry
E.5 Opportunities for silver paint and ink firms
E.6 Silver-related opportunities for solar panel firms
E.7 Important development and changes since last year’s report
E.7.1 What the decline in the prospects for the PV industry means for silver sales
E.7.2 Recent silver-related pricing trends and other changes impacting the PV industry
E.7.3 Impact of worldwide economic conditions
E.8 Summary of eight-year forecasts of silver sales into the PV industry

Chapter One: Introduction

1.1 Background to this report
1.2 Objectives and scope of this report
1.3 Methodology of this report
1.4 Plan of this report

Chapter Two: Current and Future Utilization of Silver by the Photovoltaics Industry

2.1 Traditional applications for silver in crystalline silicon PV
2.2 Thin-film PV: New uses for silver
2.2.1 Applications for silver in amorphous silicon and other forms of thin-film silicon
2.2.2 Applications for silver in CdTe PV
2.2.3 Applications for silver in CIGS PV
2.3 Silver, organic PV and dye sensitive cells
2.4 Are there uses for nanosilver in the PV industry?
2.5 Silver in transparent conductors for the PV industry
2.6 Production trends impacting silver use in the PV industry
2.7 Regulation issues for nanosilver
2.6 Key points made in this chapter

Chapter Three: Markets for Silver in the Photovoltaics Industry

3.1 Front electrodes
3.1.1 Fingers: Balancing electrical coverage with light obstruction
3.1.2 Transparent electrodes: Balancing conductivity with light transmission
3.1.3 Tabbing
3.2 Back electrodes
3.2.1 Silver as a reflector
3.2.2 The drive to lower cost materials
3.3 Alternatives to silver in PV
3.4 Key points made in this chapter

Chapter Four: Eight-Year Forecasts of Silver in Photovoltaics

4.1 Forecasting methodology
4.1.1 Data sources
4.1.2 Scope of forecast
4.1.3 Alternative scenarios
4.1.4 Some notes on pricing
4.2 Forecasts of silver consumption by PV technology
4.2.1 c-Si
4.2.2 Thin-film silicon
4.2.3 CdTe
4.2.4 CIGS
4.2.5 DSC
4.2.6 OPV
4.3 Forecasts of silver consumption by PV cell component
4.4 Forecasts of silver consumption by silver material type
4.5 Summary of forecasts

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