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Advanced Notice: August Shutdown

As mentioned in the previous news post we are moving premises this year. With our new facility nearing completion we will be decommissioning our chambers and other equipment prior to moving at the end of August.

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We Are Moving!

We will soon be starting the move to our new premises and by the end of the year we will be fully operational at the new site. We are planning a staged move in order to minimise disruption to testing and we are very excited to share details and photos of our new setup as soon as possible.

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Multi-Junction Cell Investigation Technique

With the advent of cells with more than four junctions, the basic design of the TS-Space Systems Unisim range reached its sensible limit. To provide for five and more junctions, the N-zone solar simulator was introduced. This is very sophisticated, and can be used to analyse cells with up to twelve junctions with-out the adjustment of any one junction affecting the other.

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The Advantages of a Close Match Spectrum

The term 'close-match' to describe a solar simulator that attempted to move beyond a single-source design and accurately reproduce the solar reference spectrum was first used in 1997 by Dr Williams from 'TS-Space Systems LTD' when the results from the first ever close-match solar simulator were presented.

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What is a Solar Simulator Zone?

At TS-Space Systems, when we made the worlds first multi-source close match solar simulator back in 1997 [2], we also made the world's first multi zone solar simulator by definition. What is a "zone" when it comes to solar simulators? It's a good question and one we get asked quite a lot of the time.

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