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Wavelabs, a German testing equipment manufacturer, has presented a new solar simulator suitable for perovskite and thin film minimodules.
Wavelabs, a German manufacturer of test instruments and solar simulators based on light-emitting diodes (LEDs), has introduced Sinus-430 Advanced, designed to characterize thin-film and perovskite minimodules. It has a customizable spectrum with tunable LEDs, with an illuminated area of ??306 mm x 306 mm.
“Our new simulator bridges the gap between small-scale cell characterization and module research and production,” says Hans-Christian Schaich, project manager at Wavelabs.
Exposure times are programmable, as is continuous lighting. Its lighting engine is rated A+A+A+, allowing calibrations to be performed with less than 1% spectral non-uniformity. Characterization includes integrated electroluminescence (EL), photoluminescence (PL), gated infrared (IR), and external quantum efficiency based on Wavelabs Rapidwave-EQE.
The company claims the solar simulator is “tandem ready” with automatic spectrum calibration of 25 different LED channels to allow for adjustment of current mismatches. It also incorporates a spectrometer and intensity sensor with an automated feedback loop to ensure long-term stability of the defined spectrum.
This is the latest product from Wavelabs to address the needs of researchers and manufacturers working on new high-efficiency cell technologies. Last year it introduced industrial-sized and benchtop instruments. |
