Unified control platform for BrightSpot imaging systems
IMPEL talks to your system components and even to the rest of your factory – cameras, lenses, filter wheels, power supplies, relays, valves, motors, sensors, PLC’s, barcode readers, and other computers. Autofocus routines can ensure perfect focus every time.
Captured images can be automatically enhanced through manipulations such as lens distortion corrections, perspective distortion corrections, contrast/brightness enhancement, autocropping of areas around the cells/panels, image colorization across several palette choices, and background noise (sunlight) removal. Such enhancements can be applied as images are captured or later in a batch mode to an entire dataset. Multi-camera images of large panels can be automatically stitched together into a single composite image.
Original and enhanced images are all saved in user defined folders with the scanned serial number or user defined sample name in the image filename together with a timestamp. For each image captured, all important recipe parameters and quantified analysis (average pixel intensity and standard deviation of pixel intensity) are saved as a row in a data log.
All critical device control and image enhancement parameters are saved in Recipes for easy recall. Multi-step recipes can be defined to automatically take a series of images under different conditions to accomplish tasks such as Daytime EL capture and the mapping quantified figures of merit.
Integrate Seamlessly with Factory Automation
IMPEL software can be customized to handshake with factory PLCs and to communicate with secure enterprise software systems.
RAW image mode together with an optional sinking power supply enables intensity and bias-dependent PL for spatial mapping of diode ideality factor, series resistance, implied open-circuit voltage, and power conversion efficiency.
From stationary EL/PL systems to field-ready tools, our imaging systems come standard with IMPEL.
The CellSpot system enables imaging of defects and non-uniformities in solar cells and minimodules without room light artifacts. Non-contact PL imaging can even be applied to partially processed cells, while comparing EL to PL images allows the user to differentiate between series-resistance and bulk/surface quality effects.
PanEL-Spot enables EL Imaging on a range of PV samples, from individual solar cells to full-size commercial panels, and everything in between. See why your cells and panels exhibit low efficiency, including defects such as cell cracks, wire soldering problems, and thin-film shunting.
TravEL-Spot gives you the ability to take EL imaging to the field, in a convenient and portable travel case. See why your panels are exhibiting an energy shortfall, including defects such as cell cracks, wire soldering problems, potential-induced degradation (PID), and thin-film shunting.
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