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BrightSpot was very responsive to our customization needs for an EL/PL system to image our Perovskite cells and mini-modules. The image quality is excellent, and the system is heavily used to provide critical feedback for our R&D efforts.
– John Iannelli, President & Founder, Caelux
BrightSpot utilizes a variety of camera and lens combinations to enable high-resolution imaging over a wide range of device sizes. Even when imaging areas wider than 1 meter, fine features smaller than 0.5 mm can easily be seen. We offer large-area LED illumination at intensities up to 1 sun to capture photoluminescence images of full panels.
Imaging systems for Perovskite cells/panels range from our standard CellSpot and PanEL-Spot products, to customized system configurations tailored to your specific testing needs.
Perovskites are highly sensitive to degradation from moisture and air ingress from the panel edges and junction box penetrations. BrightSpot’s UV Fluorescence technology has been demonstrated to detect such sealing failures in glass/glass panel construction. UVF should be a standard product development tool to help develop durable Perovskite panels.
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We purchased a customized photoluminescence imaging system from BrightSpot for characterizing perovskite thin films and completed solar cells over a wide range of sizes. The system is user friendly and produces excellent PL images.
– Adam Lorenz, Co-founder and CTO, Cubic PV
IMPEL’s automated recipe feature can capture a series of images at different light intensities and/or electrical biases. BrightSpot’s advanced algorithms can analyze these images to create figure of merit maps of important device parameters such as Ideality factor, Rs, iVoc, and PCE.
IMPEL’s automated recipe feature can capture a series of images at different light intensities and/or electrical biases. BrightSpot’s advanced algorithms can analyze these images to create figure of merit maps of important device parameters such as Ideality factor, Rs, iVoc, and PCE.
Non-contact PL imaging should be performed after each critical step in device fabrication: after Perovskite deposition, after transport layer deposition, and after device completion. Imaging after each step facilitates not only process step optimization, but also statistical process control in manufacturing.
Multi-step recipes in IMPEL enable automatic capture of images over time as devices degrade while exposed to illumination, electrical bias, and other stress factors.
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BrightSpot built a customized EL/PL system for Swift Solar for imaging defects and quantifying quality on both our Perovskite top junctions and the underlying silicon cells. The system is heavily used on a daily basis and is critical to our product development efforts.
– Tomas Leijtens, Co-founder and CTO, Swift Solar
As perovskite and tandem (multi-junction) solar cells move from research to early manufacturing, non-contact inspection becomes critical. BrightSpot’s EL and PL systems offer powerful, safe imaging tools for visualizing subcell performance, material defects, and layer consistency across new architectures.
BrightSpot offers customized imaging systems for factory line and robotic integration, offline testing, varied panel orientation and shape, and tight working distance constraints.
Control
IMPEL is the unified control platform for BrightSpot imaging systems, enabling seamless coordination of the camera, light sources, and power supplies. From a single interface, users can adjust exposure settings, trigger PL or EL sequences, and save all control and post-processing parameters in a convenient “Recipe” format.
Enterprise System Integration
Our software engineering team will customize IMPEL to integrate with your upstream/downstream automation equipment and to save data in a desired location and format.
Report
Built-in image processing tools help users enhance contrast to highlight defects and visualize subtle variations in cell or panel quality.
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