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Extend the scope of your CIMPS system to the examination of solar cells, DSSC, ...

CIMPS-pcs is designed to integrate photocurrent spectroscopy and general spectro-electrochemical features into the Thales-Zennium system. Equipped with the tunable light source TLS, one of the core applications of CIMPS-pcs is measuring the Incident Photon Conversion Efficiency IPCE of organic and dye sensitized solar cells in the wavelength range from about 400 nm up to more than 700 nm, representing for the most effective range of solar light.

Like the standard light sources for CIMPS, the TLS is based on the state-of-the-art LED technology. CIMPS-pcs profits from the modulation capabilities of LEDs just as CIMPS does. No mechanical choppers are necessary and instead of the more noise-sensitive Lock-In-technique the advantages of coherent frequency analysis technique can be used. CIMPS-pcs comes up as a plug & play application fully calibrated and equipped with the outstanding comfort of Thales: spectral data can be analyzed with the on-board package “light spectra analysis”, spectral data files are covered by the preview-support of the Windows® file explorer and can be exported in manifold ways as high-quality vector graphics, bitmaps and ASCII data lists. You may view and export data, while measurements are running. Context-sensitive online-help helps you do your work in the most effective way.

Additional methods:

• Photocurrent vs. wavelength (PCS)
• Incident photon conversion efficiency (IPCE)

On demand CIMPS-pcs can work together also with traditional set-ups of 3rd party light source – chopper – monochromator combinations in additional wavelength ranges, but with a little less comfort.