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Solar Industry — Roughness Characterization

Characterizing Photovoltaic Cell Surfaces

Solar energy materials that are slightly rough trap more light than perfectly smooth surfaces, and thus achieve greater output. However, surfaces that are too rough lose efficiency through excessive scattering and less absorption. Clearly, roughness characterization has a great deal of importance in the development and manufacture of photovoltaic cells. Bruker is an industry leader in this area and our 3D microscopes, stylus profilers, and surface metrology technologies have several decades of ground-breaking experience in rapidly quantifying the surface characteristics of materials with sub-nanometer resolution.

Stylus Profiler Solution For Solar Roughness Characterization

The DektakXT Surface Profiler is the culmination of four decades of stylus profiler technology innovations that enables superior performance, versatility and value for solar industry and research engineers.

• DektakXT Stylus Surface Profiling System

3D Microscopes For Solar Roughness Characterization

The ContourGT Family of 3D Microscopes are the most comprehensive and intuitive surface metrology platform available today for photovoltaic cell production, solar industry research and solar technology manufacturing quality control applications.

• ContourGT-X8 3D Microscope

• ContourGT-X3 3D Microscope

• ContourGT-K1 3D Microscope

• ContourGT-K0 3D Microscope

Solar Roughness Characterization & Surface Profiling Application Notes

Download our free PDF application notes relating to the roughness characterization of solar materials, enabling gains in solar efficiency with precision metrology, and the advantages that the versatile Dektak Stylus Profiler can provide to anyone working in the solar industry.

• Precision Surface Metrology Enables Solar Efficiency Gains (5.8 MB)

• 3D Surface Profiling Applications: Advantages of Using Dektak Surface Profilers with Vision 3D Analysis Software (8.6 MB)

• Surface Texture Analysis Using Dektak Stylus Profilers (1.2 MB)