The concept of an evacuated flat plate (EFP) collector was proposed over 40 years ago but,
despite its professed advantages, very few manufacturers have developed commercial …

Solar simulators are a fundamental instrument to characterize solar cells parameters, as
they can reproduce the operating conditions under which the solar cells are going to work …

This article describes the design of a tunable, versatile, light emitting diode (LED) based
solar simulator that employs 19 different wavelengths controlled independently by high …

Heat losses from a flat panel solar collector can be significantly reduced by lowering the
internal pressure to< 0.5 Pa. Compared with conventional collectors, the resulting increase …

Hermeticity of vacuum edge-sealing materials are one of the paramount requirements,
specifically, to the evolution of energy-efficient smart windows and solar thermal evacuated …

This work presents an adjustable large-scale solar simulator based on metal halide lamps.
The design procedure is described with regards to the construction and spatial arrangement …

The concept of an evacuated flat plate collector was proposed over 40 years ago but,
despite its professed advantages, very few manufacturers have developed commercial …

This paper presents characterization of a new high flux solar simulator consisting of a 10 kW
Xenon arc via indirect heat flux mapping technique for solar thermochemical applications …

Solar simulators are predominantly used for testing photovoltaic devices, which usually
require a relatively shorter duration of exposure. Novel photothermal materials used for …

Indoor testing of solar thermal absorbers requires an artificial light source with controlled
emitted power and uniform illumination over the targeted sample. There are several devices …