Patent ID: 11955577
Assignee: MAXEON SOLAR PTE. LTD.
Field: Semiconductors (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  B  Y | IPC B  H

Claim 0:
1. A method, comprising:
loading a photovoltaic (PV) cell on a cell platform of a conveyor system of a multi-operation tool, wherein the conveyor system includes an actuator operably coupled to the cell platform to move the cell platform along a conveyor path from a loading location to an unloading location;
moving the cell platform along the conveyor path from the loading location to a lasing location, wherein the lasing location is under a laser head of a laser scribing station of the multi-operation tool;
laser scribing, by the laser head, a scribe line on a first surface of the PV cell;
moving the cell platform along the conveyor path from the lasing location to a printing location, wherein the printing location is under a printer head of an adhesive printing station of the multi-operation tool; and
printing, by the printer head, an adhesive on the first surface of the PV cell, wherein the actuator is a rotary actuator operably coupled to the cell platform to rotate the cell platform about an axis, and wherein the loading location, the lasing location, and the printing location are circumferentially aligned on the conveyor path at a same radius from the axis.