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Buying Solar Simulators

Top-level product category: icon various devices

Related product category: illuminators

Solar simulators are devices that illuminate test objects with light that mimics the properties of natural sunlight. They are commonly used for testing photovoltaic cells, allowing for the assessment of solar cell efficiency and performance under controlled conditions.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

As the most professional photonics purchasing portal, RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers (not limited to our advertisers), but also to make good purchasing decisions.

NEW: Structured Decision Process

Purchasing involves a lot of responsibility. We recommend that you apply best practice by using the following structured process: Go through the following expandable sections, complete the form and finally come to a purchase decision. You can then print that to a PDF for documenting the process.

Our article on best practices for purchasing and another one explaining this tool give you valuable insights.

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive resources of RP Photonics. Unfortunately, we do not have a specific article related to solar simulators.

If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you buy.

We recommend that you develop a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs, against which you can later check the suitability of found product offers:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying solar simulators. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

This list is for your own preparation, and can later (possibly in modified form) be used for quotation requests to suppliers.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for solar simulators. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
  • The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then indicate which specifications they meet according to your research. (You should finalize your specifications before doing this.)
  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

Selected suppliers:

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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

Suppliers for Solar Simulators

10 suppliers for solar simulators are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

Suppliers with Advertising Package

presenting their product descriptions

Zolix Instruments Co., Ltd.
No. 68B, LDUV
Tongzhou District
Beijing 101102
China
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Solar simulators are used to simulate “real” solar radiation conditions and are widely used for the photovoltaic device research and QA etc. Beam collimation and spot uniformity are important properties along with spectral matching are key operational requirements. Solar simulator are suitable for all types of solar cells and well match their optical requirements.

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Other Suppliers

Avantes B. V.
Netherlands
G2V Optics Inc.
Canada
Profile page  Website  
New Age Instruments & Materials
India
Newport Corporation
United States
Ossila Ltd.
United Kingdom
Profile page  Website  
Pro-Lite Technology Ltd
United Kingdom
Profile page  Website  
QuantumDesign Europe GmbH
Germany
Sciencetech Inc.
Canada
Profile page  Website  
WAVELABS Solar Metrology Systems GmbH
Germany

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