Avalon ST, a Swiss LED-based solar simulation and metrology company, has acquired xenon-based solar simulator firm PASAN for an undisclosed sum. The companies will integrate operations and staff ...

OF201, the object belongs to the same all-star family as Pluto: dwarf planets. Its diameter, roughly 435 miles (700 km), is half Pluto’s, ...

In this paper, a regular dodecahedron solar simulator structure with five spot light sources is presented to provide uniform flux. To analyze light distribution without a dodecahedron cavity, a cubic ...

Australia's peak consumer advocacy group put 20 sunscreens to the test, finding most didn’t actually hit the SPF50 mark.

Some of Australia's most popular sunscreens are not living up to their own SPF rating claims, according to consumer advocacy group Choice, after it tested 20 products and found only four met the ...

Instead, an instrument called a solar simulator that imitates sunlight is used. Researchers measure the time it takes for the skin to redden in an area where sunscreen has been applied, versus an ...

Sunscreen testing by Choice finds many popular brands do not meet their SPF claims, but experts say sunscreens remain safe and effective.

How the sunscreens were tested Choice, a not-for-profit consumer advocacy organisation that tests product efficacy, looked into the SPF ratings over 20 popular Australian sunscreens, across ...

A panel of 10 adult volunteers is selected. A very precise measurement (2 milligrams of sunscreen per centimetre square of skin) of the sunscreen is applied to a marked out area of the skin and then ...

This article describes a simple and inexpensive solar panel simulator that electronically mimics a 50-W solar panel. In order for a simulator to be able to adjust parameters such as different solar ...

An interdigitated-back-contact (IBC) version of Quokka, a recently developed free and fast solar cell simulation program, is presented. It is capable of simulating IBC unit cells with a variety of ...