TS-Space Systems launches solar simulator educational guide
Solar simulator manufacturer TS-Space Systems (Marlow, England) has just launched an educational resource at http://www.solar-simulator.info for those new to solar simulators and to assist their customers when selecting a simulator. The goal of the guide is to bring awareness to the difference between modern, advanced solar simulators and those that simply meet the basic ASTM and IEC international standards.
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As the resource describes, there are a huge number of manufacturers and models of solar simulators available, and choosing one can be an overwhelming decision. And while there are standards in place that require simulators to be classified according to their performance, the resource explains how these standards have not kept pace with the advances of solar simulator technology or the photovoltaic or solar energy devices they are used to test.
The solar simulator educational resource attempts to list the basic terminology and elements of solar simulators, how they are classified by the existing standards and, finally, how advanced solar simulators differ and the advantages they provide. The company says it is in no way a complete work, but is intended to help those who are new to the field by giving them a good entry-level knowledge of the subject.
SOURCE: TS-Space Systems; http://www.solar-simulator.info/
Gail Overton | Senior Editor (2004-2020)
Gail has more than 30 years of engineering, marketing, product management, and editorial experience in the photonics and optical communications industry. Before joining the staff at Laser Focus World in 2004, she held many product management and product marketing roles in the fiber-optics industry, most notably at Hughes (El Segundo, CA), GTE Labs (Waltham, MA), Corning (Corning, NY), Photon Kinetics (Beaverton, OR), and Newport Corporation (Irvine, CA). During her marketing career, Gail published articles in WDM Solutions and Sensors magazine and traveled internationally to conduct product and sales training. Gail received her BS degree in physics, with an emphasis in optics, from San Diego State University in San Diego, CA in May 1986.