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S. Leu and D. Sontag
Detlef Sontag is Senior Technologist for Solar Cells at Meyer
Burger (Germany) GmbH. since 2015—one of the world’s leading PV equipment manufacturing companies. He graduated as a
physicist at the University of Konstanz in 2000, and obtained his
Ph.D. degree in 2004 working on novel wafer materials for Photovoltaics. In 2004 he joined Deutsche Cell GmbH, a subsidiary
of Solar World AG, as quality assurance engineer with insights
in the industrial crystalline silicon PV manufacturing processes
along the whole value chain from block casting via cell processing to module assembling. Detlef Sontag joined the equipment manufacturer Roth & Rau AG as Senior Principal for cell
technology in 2009. There he supported the planning and commissioning of the Technology centre and worked actively on the
development of cell technologies like PERC and HJT including
project coordination of corresponding R&D-projects.
S. Leu and D. Sontag
Detlef Sontag is Senior Technologist for Solar Cells at Meyer
Burger (Germany) GmbH. since 2015—one of the world’s leading PV equipment manufacturing companies. He graduated as a
physicist at the University of Konstanz in 2000, and obtained his
Ph.D. degree in 2004 working on novel wafer materials for Photovoltaics. In 2004 he joined Deutsche Cell GmbH, a subsidiary
of Solar World AG, as quality assurance engineer with insights
in the industrial crystalline silicon PV manufacturing processes
along the whole value chain from block casting via cell processing to module assembling. Detlef Sontag joined the equipment manufacturer Roth & Rau AG as Senior Principal for cell
technology in 2009. There he supported the planning and commissioning of the Technology centre and worked actively on the
development of cell technologies like PERC and HJT including
project coordination of corresponding R&D-projects.