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Solar is the most abundant and fastest growing renewable technology. Its rapid growth has driven economies of scale that make it ever more attractive for a variety of energy applications. We support these advances with trusted instrumentation and reliable lab services and support - enabling laboratories to innovate improved materials and chemicals to accelerate R&D, and helping manufacturers to achieve the highest photovoltaic cell performance and quality.

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Comprehensive Testing Solutions for Solar Panel Materials
Free, clean, renewable – the power of the sun has the potential to serve millions of people around the world, while addressing some of our most daunting environ ...
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Challenges & Trends for Emerging Solar Cell Technologies
Solar power has risen to become the cheapest energy form on the planet. Innovative breakthroughs in key materials like glass, silicon, and polymers, have been v ...
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Comprehensive and Compliant Solutions for Glass Analysis
It’s clear, glass has a variety of uses, from practical to technological to decorative. In particular, float glass is widely used in architecture, automotive, t ...
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Advanced Solutions for Solar Cells Poster
Download this poster for an all-in-one view of how PerkinElmer instrumentation can answer the analytical needs of the solar market. From R&D of nanomaterials an ...
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6 Shining New Examples of Integrated Photovoltaics (PV)
Climate change policies around the world are working to enable green growth through the use of sustainable energy.
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Spectroscopy’s Role in Accelerating the Solar Panel Development
Solar power has the potential to deliver inexpensive, clean, and renewable energy to millions of people around the world-while also being part of the solution t ...
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Characterization of Degradation Modes of Ethylene-Vinyl Acetate Encapsulant of Photovoltaic Modules by FTIR and TGA
Ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) has been a material of key importance as an encapsulant of photovoltaic (PV) modules used in the solar energy industry. EVA has man ...
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Characterization of the degree of cross-linking of Ethylene Vinyl Acetate encapsulant in Photovoltaic Modules by DMA
Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA) has long been a vastly important material for solar cell encapsulation due to ideal properties for the application after undergoing ...
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Analysis of High-Purity Silicon Matrices for Trace Contaminants with the NexION 5000 ICP-MS
The late 20th century to early 21st century has been described as the Silicon Age, because of the large impact that elemental silicon (Si) has had on the world ...
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Using DSC to characterize degraded PET photovoltaic module backsheet films
The polymer backsheet of a Photovoltaic (PV) module plays a vital role in maintaining the overall integrity of the system. Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) is a ...
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Direct Determination of Rare Earth Impurities in High-Purity Neodymium Oxide with the NexION 5000 ICP-MS
Since the purity of the rare earth elements (REEs) governs their efficacy and the price, it is of great interest to produce ultra-high purity rare earth oxides. ...
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Differential Scanning Calorimetry of Solar Battery Active Layer Material
Organic solar cells (OSCs) are a new type of photovoltaic technology for converting solar energy into electrical energy. They have excellent characteristics suc ...
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Simple Method of Measuring the Band Gap Energy Value of TiO2 in the Powder Form using a UV/Vis/NIR Spectrometer
The measurement of the band gap of materials is important in the semiconductor, nanomaterial and solar industries. This note demonstrates how the band gap of a ...
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Curing Determination of EVA for Solar Panel Application
This study shows that DSC can be used to study the curing degree of the EVA resin by measuring the residual curing enthalpy. The data show that the residual cur ...
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Teach Me in 10 - Total Solar Reflectance Analysis according to ASTM E903-20
Join Dr. Valentina Paolucci, Senior Application Scientist at PerkinElmer, for an insightful on-demand webinar. Explore advanced UV/Vis analytical techniques usi ...
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Characterizing Degradation of the EVA Encapsulant of PV Modules: A Combined MatChar Approach
Join Nic Lancaster for a deeper understanding of the analytical challenges facing photovoltaic encapsulant material. Ethylene-vinyl acetate (EVA) has many favor ...
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Advance Coatings Research with UV-Vis-NIR analysis and MappIR, for applications in Optoelectronics, Photovoltaics and Semiconductors
Advance Coatings Research with UV-Vis-NIR analysis and MappIR, for applications in Optoelectronics, Photovoltaics and Semiconductors
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Chasing the Sun - Advanced Analysis for Innovative PV Materials
Since 2020 solar power has risen to become the cheapest energy form on the planet. Of the wind, solar and other renewables, nearly two-thirds – 62% – were cheap ...
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Today’s advanced and increasingly diverse Advanced Materials laboratories are facing new challenges daily – starting from raw materials right up to the finished ...
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If you're looking for proven AA, ICP-OES, ICP-MS, or mercury analysis systems, you've come to the right place. PerkinElmer has been at the forefront of atomic s ...
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Elevate your research and quality control with our state-of-the-art Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), Simultaneous Ther ...
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When analyzing complex mixtures, evolved gases or competitors’ products deformulation for their complete characterization, material engineering researchers are ...
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