Solar Cell Inspection Application

Immediate and accurate detection of defective components at the product-assembly stage of solar cell manufacture is critical to production efficiency. Adept Electronic Solutions is pleased to partner and support Dalsa Corporation’s entry into this market.

Recognising that solar cell inspection demands high-quality and high-volume production, deployment of Dalsa’s new solar-cell inspection capabilities help provide a distinct economic advantage by enabling a cost-effective application that will increase efficiency and lower expenses without compromising quality.

Not only is ensuring early and precise detection of faults critical in the inspection process, solar cell manufacturers are also under pressure to lower costs in order to provide parity between the provision of solar power and power provided by the electricity grid. Dalsa’s application can contribute to lowering overheads and so keeping costs down, making solar power far more attractive and competitive.

Dalsa’s 25 years of expertise in area scan, line scan and embedded processing for inspection in the flat-panel display industry have been successfully applied in developing additonal functionality to their product that can be used in the initial phase of the quality-inspection process to verify patterns and edges, inspect coatings and check for micro-cracks.

What is necessary for successful solar cell inspection? Factors to consider include:

• Image capture speeds
• Image resolution
• Embedded processing capability

Dalsa’s new application satisfies these criteria

Why should you consider Dalsa's solar cell inspection application? Benefits of using this application include:

High Accuracy: Dalsa’s time delay integration (TDI) technology is accurate in identifying defects and efficient in delivering the fastest image-capture speeds in the industry (110 KHz). These capabilities result in improved yields and reduced costs.

High Speed: Dalsa’s patented CMOS sensor technology enables 62 frames per second with 4 megapixel resolution for greater system throughput.

High Resolution: Dalsa’s new Pantera 22M camera allows image capture of a solar cell down to 40um with one shot by utilising its 22 megapixels, with low dar current, low noice and higher dynamic range than any competitive product.

Ideal for inline inspections: Enables real-time embedded acquisition, processing, defect analysis, data reduction, data filtering, defect classification, compact form factor.

The above capabilities are delivered via the following Dalsa products distributed and supported by Adept Electronic Solutions:

• Piranha HS 4K640 (the company’s fastest TDI camera)
• Falcon 4M60
  Pantera 22M
• Piranha3 8K
• Anaconda image processing board

Piranha HS 4k640		Falcon 4M60		Anaconda image processing board

Adept Electronic Solutions are "The Machine Vision and Imaging Specialists" and distributor of Dalsa Corporation products in Australia and New Zealand. To find out more Dalsa's solar cell inspection application or any other Dalsa Corporation's machine vision product please email us at: adept@adept.net.au or call us at Perth (08) 92425411 / Sydney (02) 99792599 / Melbourne (03) 95555621 or use our online contact us page.