BrightSpot is Exhibiting at Silicon Valley Space Week

BrightSpot will attend Silicon Valley Space Week (Satellite Innovation & MilSat conferences) from 21-24 October 2024 in Mountainview, CA in Booth #43. Brent and Dylan will be talking with current and future Aerospace customers about Electroluminescence, Photoluminescence, and Coverglass-Crack-Detection testing of their satellite PV cells/modules.

BrightSpot is exhibiting at RE+ 2024

BrightSpot Automation will be exhibiting at the RE+ Tradeshow in Anaheim, CA, Sep 10-12, 2024. Please come by to see our EL, PL, UVF, and Contact Resistance testing equipment solutions. Contact us to schedule a meeting ahead of time. Andrew, Brent, Rich, and Marissa will be attending. Come by our booth 46088 in Hall B […]

BrightSpot is Attending the Space Symposium

BrightSpot Automation CTO, Andrew Gabor, will be attending the Space Foundation’s Space Symposium in Colorado Springs on April 9-10, 2024. He will be sharing information on BrightSpot’s growing suite of non-contact tools for imaging defects in Multijunction and Silicon space solar cells/panels. Examples of defects include wafer cracks, welding problems, shunting between junctions, cracks and […]

BrightSpot is attending the 2024 NREL PV Reliability Workshop

Andrew Gabor and Isaac Gould from BrightSpot Automation will attend the NREL PV Reliability Workshop, Feb 27-29 2024, and present work performed in conjunction with researchers from NREL and PVEL on “UV fluorescence imaging for solar panel product development and durability testing.” Partners from Forum Construction & Consulting will present joint work on “Unveiling the […]

BrightSpot is exhibiting at Intersolar North America

BrightSpot will be exhibiting at #isnaesna in San Diego, CA from Jan 17-19. Join Andrew Gabor and Isaac Gould in booth 2140 to talk about your testing needs and how our systems can help you image defects in solar cells and panels. Or come by and see for yourself as we demonstrate our EL system.

Isaac Gould is presenting on perovskite solar cell characterization at the MRS conference in Boston

Isaac Gould, Photovoltaics Technologist at BrightSpot, is speaking on Nov 28 2023 at the Materials Research Society Conference in Boston: EN05.06: Halide Perovskites Photovoltaics and Stability II, Hynes, Level 3, Room 311, 4:15-4:30pm, “Unraveling Perovskite Metal Shunting in Reverse Bias: Insights for Enhanced Module Design.” This talk presents work that he conducted at the University […]

Rich Landy has joined BrightSpot Automation

Rich Landy has joined BrightSpot Automation as Senior Software Engineer.  He will further develop the IMPEL software for our Electroluminescence, Photoluminescence and UV Fluorescence imaging systems inspection systems, including the introduction of machine learning based defect detection.   Previously Rich was an Application Architect at Accenture focused on Data Engineering Pipelines. At GridCure he worked as both a Software Engineer and a Data […]

BrightSpot is exhibiting at Intersolar Mexico

BrightSpot Automation will be exhibiting at Intersolar Mexico which is collocated with the 30th edition of The Green Expo in Mexico City September 5th – 7th.  Thanks to a grant from the Colorado International Trade Office we will be in booth number 1306 at the Centro Citibanamex.  Home – THE GREEN EXPO® 2023 If you are attending, please stop […]

BrightSpot is presenting/exhibiting at the 2023 IEEE PVSC Conference

BrightSpot will be at PVSC50 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 12-15, at trade show booth #13.  CTO Andrew Gabor will be presenting his paper on “Detection and Impact of Cracks Hidden Near Interconnect Wires in Silicon Solar Cells”, on June 12 in Ballroom B at 1:45pm.

BrightSpot Automation signs CRADA with NREL

BOULDER, Colo.—BrightSpot Automation recently signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) with funding assistance from West Gate, a DOE Lab-Embedded Entrepreneurship Program sponsored by the Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Technologies Office. Under the CRADA, BrightSpot will work with NREL researchers on UV […]