1. Japan PV Committee/ Japan PV Materials Committee Liaison Report
InterSolar Europe 2011
June 9, 2011
Munich, Germany
Venue, Location, Date

2. PV Committee Leadership
Co-chairs
Kazuhiko Kashima/ Covalent Materials
PV Committee representative to the JRSC
GCS voting member
Masaaki Yamamichi/ AIST
Hiromu Takatsuka/ Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Terry Asakawa/ Tokyo Electron

3. PV Materials Committee Leadership
Committee Co-chairs
Kazuhiko Kashima/ Covalent Materials
PV Committee representative to the JRSC
GCS voting member
Masaaki Yamamichi/ AIST
Takashi Ishihara (Mitsubishi Electric)

4. PV Committee Organization
Japan PV Committee
Kazuhiko Kashima/ Covalent Materials
Masaaki Yamamichi/ AIST
Hiromu Takatsuka/ Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Terry Asakawa/ Tokyo Electron
Safety SG
Yasuhiro Yamauchi/
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
NOTE: The Japan PV Materials TF moved under the Japan PV Materials Committee from the Japan PV Committee.

5. PV Materials Committee Organization
Japan PV Committee
Kazuhiko Kashima/ Covalent Materials
Masaaki Yamamichi/ AIST
Hiromu Takatsuka/ Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Terry Asakawa/ Tokyo Electron
Japan PV Materials TF
Masaaki Yamamichi/ AIST
Takashi Ishikawa/ Mitsubishi Electric
NOTE: The Japan PV Materials TF moved under the Japan PV Materials Committee from the Japan PV Committee.

6. Meeting Information Last Meeting Next Meeting
April 26, 2011 at SEMI Japan, Tokyo, Japan
This was kick-off meeting for the Japan PV Materials Committee
Next Meeting
September 16, 2011 at SEMI Japan, Tokyo, Japan
NOTE: The committee meetings were/ will be jointly held.

7. Japan PV Committee Task Force/ Study Group Updates
Safety Study Group
Venue, Location, Date

8. Safety Study Group
No activity.

9. Topics International PV Module QA Forum
“Workshop” in the week of InterSolar NA is planned and organized by AIST, NREL, and PV Tech.
Criteria for PV module quality assurance are not currently clear in the PV industry, and developing de-jure standards, starting from forum standard, to ensure reliability is needed.
Starting with having a place to discuss the issue is important and SEMI will be participating in this workshop and introduce that SEMI standards activities in PV industry.
Any topic to be discussed at this workshop may be brought to the committee.
See the below URL for details:

10. Japan PV Materials Committee Task Force Updates
Japan PV Materials Task Force
Venue, Location, Date

11. Japan PV Materials Task Force
Leader
Masaaki Yamamichi/ AIST
Takashi Ishihara/ Mitsubishi Electric
Charter
Identify standardization needs and priorities for specifications, guidelines and procedures related to Materials used for manufacturing PV cells/modules and systems.
Examples of such material include, but are not limited to: substrates, TCO films, optical enhancement films, conductive interconnect, insulator materials, absorber films, PVB, EVA, backsheet, sputtering targets, starting material e.g. UMG Si, Poly-si, etc.
Participate and support the PV Standards Roadmap discussion.
Shared the outcome of PV Fab Managers Forum (EU) and NA Spring.
Agreed to draft the list of key items by reference to specifications of silicon wafers for semiconductor to see what have been standardized and what have not in PV area.

12. Danke schön! For more information, please contact:
Akiko Yamamoto, SEMI Japan

13. Backup
Venue, Location, Date

14. Organization Matrix in PV Area
Japan NA EU
Taiwan
Global PV Automation Committee
Japan PV Automation Committee
EU PV Automation Committee
Global PV
Committee
NA PV Committee
EU PV Committee
Japan PV Committee
Taiwan PV Committee
Global PV Materials Committee
Japan PV Materials Committee
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