1. Japan PV Committee/ Japan PV Materials Committee Liaison Report
EU PV Materials Committee
March 28, 2012
Europe PV Fab Managers Forum
Berlin, 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 Materials 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

5. PV Materials Committee Organization
Japan PV Materials Committee
Kazuhiko Kashima/ Covalent Materials
Masaaki Yamamichi/ AIST
Takashi Ishihara/ Mitsubishi Electric
Japan PV Materials TF
Masaaki Yamamichi/ AIST
Takashi Ishihara/ Mitsubishi Electric

6. Meeting Information Last Meeting Next Meeting
December 6, 2011 in conjunction with PV Japan 2011 at Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan
Next Meeting
April 10, 2012 at SEMI Japan, Tokyo, Japan
NOTE: The committee meetings were/ will be jointly held.

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

8. Safety Study Group No activity.
Whether or not the Study Group will be disbanded will be concluded at the next committee meeting.

9. Topics Shared the outcome of International PV Module QA Forum
1st International PV Module QA Forum was held in the week of InterSolar NA (Jul. Esplanade).
PV module reliability has been getting more concerns from those concerned while current IEC Stds are not intended to provide good information on it.
The forum, hosted jointly by AIST/PVTEC, NREL and EU_DG_JRC supported by SEMI, is to provide a platform to develop an internationally agreed guide for PV Manufacturing process QA and Module Rating, which will be eventually proposed to IEC TC82 WG2 for their discussion.
SEMI PV Group participated in this workshop. Any topic discussed at this workshop may be brought to the committee.
2nd International PV Module QA Forum was held in Japan on December 7-8.
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 NA and EU meetings.
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. Thank you! For more information, please contact:
Akiko Yamamoto, SEMI Japan