Andor Technology has announced its entrance into the solar research and production inline cell inspection market at the fourth Photovoltaic Technology Show Europe 2009 in Munich.
Andor said it will help researchers and industrial partners to easily detect common faults in solar cells and panels, using its Ikon-M 934 BR-DD and LucaEM R cameras.
The LucaEM R is an electron multiplying CCD (EMCCD) camera for high throughput in-line production inspection.
LucaEM R uses a very low noise megapixel frame-transfer EMCCD sensor, providing single photon detection sensitivity and high NIR quantum efficiency (27 per cent QE at 900 nm) in an air cooled, compact, USB 2.0 camera platform.
This camera also offers high sensitivity at rapid frame rates, meaning that they can be used for high-throughput testing of individual photovoltaic cells running 24/7 at one cell/sec and faster.
The Ikon-M 934 BR-DD is designed to offer ultimate responsiveness in the NIR region, delivering around 70 per cent QE at 900nm.
The megapixel CCD camera also offers deep TE cooling to -100C, very low read noise and a USB 2.0 interface, making it suitable for luminescence imaging research of PV cells.
