Infrared Heaters

For decades Heraeus Noblelight has been a competent manufacturer of infrared heaters for industrial heating processes. Drying, sintering and string soldering – the manufacturing of solar cells requires heat in many of the individual production steps.

Infrared radiation is a high energy, contact-free method of heat transfer, which saves time and production space. The benefits of infrared heat can also be achieved under extreme process conditions.

Solar cells aim to make optimum use of solar energy. An anti-reflective coating provides a significantly better absorption performance for solar cells. This coating is deposited in vacuum and at high temperatures. Thanks to the newly developed quartz reflector, the heating of carrier materials before or during coating processes can be carried out more efficiently.

Processes in vacuum or at high ambient temperatures can be carried out in a significantly more stable fashion using QRC® infrared heaters (quartz reflective coating) with nano reflectors, so that process parameters such as the temperature or heating time can be better maintained. This increases the energy efficiency of the system.

Heraeus Noblelight works closely with their customers and offers infrared heaters which can be designed in terms of shape, size and spectrum to suit the relevant process.

The heating steps of some innovative processes are thus made possible, and complex heating processes can be reproduced to permit automation.