WAVELABS Solar Metrology Systems has sold a SINUS-220 LED solar simulator to the internationally renowned Fraunhofer ISE. With its acquisition of WAVELABS LED technology, the renowned research institution and PV service provider plans to conduct PV cell technology characterization and possibly callibration in the future.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy systems (ISE), Europe’s largest solar energy research institute, has placed an order for the WAVELABS SINUS-220 LED solar simulator. In purchasing the unique solar simulator with 21 different colors of LEDs integrated into its light source from WAVELABS, Fraunhofer is set to take advantage of the greatly increased temporal spectral stability, exposure time flexibility, intensity range, and maintenance interval that LED technology provides as well as other potential advantages for PV cell characterisation.
Fraunhofer ISE was founded in 1981 and has remained at the forefront of solar PV research and testing since. Technology developed at the institute has broken world PV efficiency records and pioneered advances in dye solar cells, multicrystalline photovoltaics, and energy storage.
