Chilean company Atamostec is testing low-silver heterojunction solar modules under real desert conditions at the Atacama Desert Solar Platform (PSDA) in partnership with France’s CEA-Ines. The ALPACA ...
System-in-package (SiP) and other advanced packaging technologies are putting more components together in tighter spaces than previously seen. Often these packages are contained in a module, which is ...
Kiwa PVEL has rolled out updates to its module testing programme, with two changes affecting Static Mechanical Load (SML) and ...
Multi-die assemblies greatly increase the number of things that can go wrong, and the difficulty of finding them.
With each new generation of high-end mobility handheld devices, we get new capabilities. It started with digital cameras and continued with Bluetooth and GPS. Now, FM has become a standard feature.
The reliable performance of PV modules is heavily influenced by the climate conditions in deserts, which include factors such as irradiance, temperature, humidity and dust soiling. Image: DEWA R&D. A ...
Paul Brusenbach, manager of test engineering at Pico-light (Boulder, CO), has turned to PXI hardware for his company's latest tester. “We test optical transceivers,” Brusenbach said, “and for both the ...
Even a small array consisting of 100 elements has thousands of individual components that require perhaps 25,000 measurements per module for an eye-watering grand ...
US scientists recently put different bifacial solar cells and modules through a series of tests at elevated temperature, humidity, voltage and mechanical stress levels. The tests revealed a range of ...