Solar Panel and Fuel Cell Testing
Solar panels and fuel cell technology have been getting more attention due to the high demand for clean energy sources and shortage of conventional petrochemical sources, and there has been a significant amount of R & D activities to improve the next generation technologies.
Solar panels, which are known as Photovoltaic devices, transfer energy from the sun to user-friendly electricity, and have little impact on our environment. Photovoltaic is used in a wide range of products, from small consumer products to large commercial solar power generating systems. A fuel cell is an electro-chemical device that converts the chemicals, hydrogen and oxygen, into water, and in the process it produces electricity. With a fuel cell, chemicals constantly flow into the cell unlike battery so it never goes dead as long as there is a flow of chemicals, hydrogen and oxygen into the cell, the electricity flows out of the cell.
Controlling the quality of the deposition layers in the solar panel is critical to achieve the desired efficiency of solar panels. As well as he efficiency and reliability of fuel cell highly depend upon the quality of electrolyte and anode. The thickness of the deposited photovoltaic layer and electrolyte/anode is one important manufacturing specification to ensure the quality. The X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) technique can provide reliable and fast analysis to ensure the quality of the deposition process.
