NOVELTY - The apparatus has a tubing apparatus delivering powders of elements and/ or compounds to a housing. The apparatus comprises feeder tubes located at an outer side of the housing. Source material tubes are located at the outer side of the housing. Valves are located at inner side of the material tubes sufficient to block access between the material tubes and the feeder tubes. Heating tubes are located at an inner side of the housing and connected to the feeder tube. A loading station loads a substrate (226) onto the apparatus. Thermal sources heat the housing and the heating tube.    USE - Apparatus e.g. roll-to-roll or batch tool and small lab tool, for deposition of elements and/or compounds such as Copper-Indium-Gallium (CIG) powder, Sodium fluoride (NaF) powder (all claimed) and Copper-Indium-Gallium Selenide (S) thin films, onto a solar cell substrate such as Soda-Lime-Glass substrate and Metallic sheet substrate or Plastic sheet substrate e.g. Polyimide substrate.    ADVANTAGE - The apparatus manufactures CIGS thin films on a substrate to reduce cost of production of a solar cell and production time of the solar cell and to increase quality of the CIGS thin films on the substrate of the solar cell. The apparatus increases material utilization of constituents needed to fabricate the CIGS thin films and the solar cells. The apparatus utilizes various designed and configured heating tubes, thus allowing a smaller production area to produce relatively larger solar cells.    DETAILED DESCRIPTION - The thermal source is selected from a group consisting of electrical power heating, IR heating and/or microwave/RF heating. An INDEPENDENT CLAIM is also included for a method for deposition of elements and/or compounds onto a solar cell substrate.    DESCRIPTION OF DRAWING(S) - The drawing shows a schematic block diagram of a Sputtering Chamber for depositing copper, indium, galium and metallic alloys and a Selenization Chamber for Selenizing the copper, the indium, the galium and the metallic alloys.    Conveyer (205)    Heater (206)    Substrate (226)    Susceptor (227)    Sputtering targets (230)