We will soon be starting the move to our new premises and by the end of the year we will be fully operational at the new site. We are planning a staged move in order to minimise disruption to testing and we are very excited to share details and photos of our new setup as soon as possible.

A big thank you to all of our customers in 2023. Please note we will be closed from the 22nd December 2023 to 2nd January 2024.

A Solar Simulator usually consists of three components…

With the advent of cells with more than four junctions, the basic design of the TS-Space Systems Unisim range reached its sensible limit. To provide for five and more junctions, the N-zone solar simulator was introduced. This is very sophisticated, and can be used to analyse cells with up to twelve junctions with-out the adjustment of any one junction affecting the other.

The term 'close-match' to describe a solar simulator that attempted to move beyond a single-source design and accurately reproduce the solar reference spectrum was first used in 1997 by Dr Williams from 'TS-Space Systems LTD' when the results from the first ever close-match solar simulator were presented.

At TS-Space Systems, when we made the worlds first multi-source close match solar simulator back in 1997 [2], we also made the world's first multi zone solar simulator by definition. What is a "zone" when it comes to solar simulators? It's a good question and one we get asked quite a lot of the time.