Amtech Announces Next Generation Solar PECVD Order in July

Amtech Systems , Inc.,a global supplier of production equipment and related supplies for the solar, semiconductor, and LED markets,recently announced its solar subsidiary, Tempress Systems, Inc., has received an order in July of approximately 400MW for its next generation solar PECVD systems. The order is from a top tier solar cell manufacturer in Asia and is expected to ship within the next six to nine months.  Amtech reports that its backlog of PECVD systems now totals approximately 1.4 gigawatts of cell capacity.  The backlog also includes an order from a top tier cell manufacturer for Amtech’s high efficiency PERC package solution that combines Tempress’ PECVD and SoLayTec’s ALD systems.