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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 04, 2016
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Douglas R. Jungwirth, Porter Ranch, CA (US);
Philip T. Chiu, La Crescenta, CA (US);
Ricardo Anaya, Pasadena, CA (US);
The Boeing Company, Chicago, IL (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and methods for compensating for spatial non-uniformities in solar simulators. This is accomplished in part by acquiring a spatial map of the intensity distribution that the solar simulator produces across the illumination plane using a reference cell, identifying an area of an arbitrary solar cell within the illuminated area, and then calculating the expected illumination levels for that solar cell in that specific location based on the spatial mapping. The results of that process can then be used to determine the efficiency of the arbitrary solar cell during a test in which the reference cell (of known efficiency), located in a different part of the illuminating beam, simultaneously measures the illumination in one area of the illumination beam.