Jul 9 2010
During July 13-15, at the Intersolar North America 2010 at the Moscone Center West Hall in San Francisco, StellarNet will display its products.
These days, high-performance solar simulation has become a necessity even as PV cell producers are driven to achieve increased cell uniformity and higher production volumes. Already, many companies are providing solar similar lamps with high performance; such lamps offer the cell producer measurement comparability, traceability and uniformity. Similarly, organizations including ASTM, JIS and IEC have established standards which define the performance of simulators in three areas: temporal stability, irradiance spatial uniformity and matching the spectrum to the solar spectrum.
StellarNet, a low-cost miniature spectrometer manufacturer, has created a novel solar monitoring system. The entire NIST traceable system comprises a light receptor, fiber optic cable and UV-VIS-NIR grating-based spectrometer that is portable. The SpectraWiz spectroscopy application software comprises a novel solar match application, which can be utilized to classify and characterize solar simulators. This Solar Match Monitor application computes spectral irradiance from 1000-1100nm, 900-1000nm, 800-900nm, 700-800nm, 600-700nm, 500-600nm and 400-500nm and compares the findings to the standard percent for every range per IEC/JIS/ASTM.