pv magazine’s UP sustainability campaign has investigated the use of lead in PV panels and found, with soldered cell interconnections in particular, viable alternatives are scarce. However, German ...

In the run-up to pv magazine’s quality roundtable at Intersolar Europe, we look at a case where a production error resulted in cold solder joints in 5% of the solar ...

The PC0-7120 is a pulsed-laser diode driver module featuring high-speed performance in a flexible mounting configurations and robust design package. It is designed to offer minimized cost design and ...

Cold soldering defects in a PV module. The problem has now become the most commonly found defect in pre-shipping module inspections. Image: CEA The electric grid is complex. For many generation ...

Previously, a Power Electronics Technology article titled “Inverted Acoustic System Cuts IGBT Failures” (September 2011) examined the use of an acoustic microscope to image heat-blocking defects such ...

The applications of lasers in space in the past are well known; they play a key role in assisting various missions to the moon, planets and wider reaches of the solar system. The space industry is an ...