Improving solar panel recyclability with lasers

The method makes use of femtosecond lasers, a type of infrared laser that focuses energy on a very short time scale with a single laser pulse. The laser creates hermetically sealed glass-on-glass...

Photovoltaic panel glass debonding

As the photovoltaic (PV) industry continues to evolve, advancements in Photovoltaic panel glass debonding have become critical to optimizing the utilization of renewable energy sources.

Debonding on demand

Common surface pretreatment processes such as primer or plasma pretreatment are compati-ble with this debonding technology.

PVDEBOND | SOLTECH

Launched in December 2024, PVDEBOND brings together chemistry, materials science and PV engineering to tackle a simple yet radical idea: what if we could design solar panels that can be taken apart – cleanly,

Femtosecond Laser Welding Eliminates Plastic From Solar Modules

In a bid to make solar panels more recyclable, researchers use a high-speed laser to seal PV cells in pockets of glass.

Femtosecond Lasers Solve Solar Panels'' Recycling Issue

Researchers at the U.S. National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) in Golden, Colo., say they''ve found a better way to seal solar modules. Using a femtosecond laser, the researchers welded together solar

Using nanosecond laser pulses to debond the glass-EVA layer from

In this paper, a new method using nanosecond laser pulses is demonstrated to induce transient melting selectively at the EVA-Si interface. This impulsive heating method can cleanly separate the glass

PVDEBOND | imec

PVDEBOND aims to incorporate debonding-on-demand additives to existing PV encapsulant foils to enable fast, clean, and precise separation and recycling of materials.

My paper on laser-based debonding for photovoltaic modules

During my PhD, I developed a laser-based technology for debonding structural adhesives and polymers. The key idea is to convert high-intensity photon energy into thermal energy, which breaks the...

(663b) Using Laser Irradiation to Separate Polymer Adhesives from

To tackle this issue, a novel impulsive light-debonding technique was devised and tested on both model and commercial poly-crystalline PV panels. Nanosecond laser pulses can effectively induce transient melting at