Research Facilities
The following equipment is available within SISER:
Cell and module fabrication equipment
- PECVD thin-film deposition system , ~10cm
rigid or flexible substrates, MW or tunable RF power supply, full range of gases
for a-Si:H + carbide + nitride alloys + dopant gases
- EETS PV module laminator
- PMMA casting
- thermal polymerisation (HB320 sealing tank)
- UV polymerisation (UV Crosslinker)
- cutting and polishing (Mutronic Diaplain 6300)
- EVA dyeing
- curing (Carbolite oven)
- degassing (Gallenkamp vacuum)
- Microbalance
Optical Characterisation
- Perkin Elmer UV/vis/NIR spectrophotometer + 150mm integrating sphere
and centre-mount
- Edinburgh Instruments FS920 UV/vis/NIR spectrofluorometer
- Spectra-Physics Ar-Kr multi-wavelength laser (350 –
676nm)
Electronic materials characterisation
- Renishaw Raman spectrometer
- Capacitance-voltage (C-V) measuring system
- Minority carrier lifetime flash tester
- 4-point probe
- SEM
- AFM
Solar Cell Characterisation
- Small area solar simulator (20cm x 20cm - class A) and current-voltage (I-V) measurement system
- Large area solar simulator (1m x 1m - class B) and I-V measurement system
- Spectral response (EQE, IQE)
Testing
