Dear Colleague, The Solar Industry Awards have been created to recognise the whole value chain and those people, products and services that will develop innovative manufacturing and product approaches that have the potential to change the way we live. Now we hand it over to you, the industry to decide which products have had the most impact and the most potential to drive this industry forward. The FISCHERSCOPE X_RAY 5000 is an innovative inline coating thickness and material analysis spectrometer specially designed for the needs of the pv thinfilm manufacturing process. It measures precisely thickness and composition of CIS, CIGS and other pv thinfilm coatings on various substrates. The unique design allows measurements at ambient air, under vacuum and on substrates with up to 500°C surface temperature. Movement or deviation of the base material is effectively compensated with the innovative distance compensation function to ensure a precise measurement and analysis.