Applied HCT B5

The Applied HCT B5 system slices silicon ingots into ultra-thin wafers to help customers drive down the cost of manufacturing photovoltaic (PV) cells. Featuring the lowest cost-per-wafer and with greater than 97% uptime, each system can output sufficient monocrystalline or multicrystalline wafers to create over 10MW of solar cells each year, the most of any wire saw on the market today.

With over 500 systems installed at customer sites around the world, the HCT B5 system is the industry’s gold standard for reliability and productivity. The HCT B5 wire saw precisely balances and controls wire tension and cutting speed to achieve consistent wafer thickness and short cutting times while delivering superior wafer surface quality.