For Fast Inline Solar Cell Inspection

Andor Technology enters solar energy market with high performance NIR-enhanced CCD and EMCCD cameras to leverage photovoltaic luminescence imaging. Common faults in solar cells and panels are a known fact in the industry, and so far technology answers have been unsatisfactory. Andor promises to help researchers and industrial partners to detect such costly faults far more simply, in using its highperformance cameras the iKon-M 934 BR-DD and the LucaEM, a highly cost-effective yet fast and powerful Electron Multiplying CCD (EMCCD) camera for high throughput in-line production inspection. LucaEM uses a very low noise megapixel frame-transfer EMCCD sensor, providing single photon detection sensitivity and high NIR quantum efficiency (27 % QE at 900 nm) in an air cooled, compact, USB 2.0 camera platform.