Solar Energy Systems Engineers
Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Abrasion testers
- Ageing ovens (Accelerated weathering machines)
- Metal testing instruments (Adhesion testers)
- Atomic absorption AA spectrometers (Atomic absorption spectrometers)
- Spectrometers (Auger electron spectrometers)
- Laboratory mechanical convection ovens (Bench ovens)
- Potentiometers (Chronopotentiometers)
- Compression testers
- Photocopiers (Copy machines)
- Coulometers
- Creep testers
- Graphic recorders (Current versus voltage IV curve tracers)
- Portable data input terminals (Data loggers)
- Calorimeters (Differential scanning calorimeters)
- Videoscopes (Digital imaging microscopes)
- Signal generators (Digital pattern generators)
- Resistance thermometers (Digital resistance thermometers)
- Low voltage alternating and direct current AC DC panelboards (Direct current DC power supplies)
- Electrometers
- Laboratory evaporators (Electron beam evaporators)
- Spectrometers (Electron energy loss spectrometers)
- Spectrometers (Energy dispersive x-ray spectrometers EDS)
- Refrigerated and heated reach in environmental or growth chambers (Environmental chambers)
- Fatigue testers
- Facsimile machines (Fax machines)
- Scanning electron microscopes (Field emission scanning electron microscopes FESEM)
- Extruders (Film extruders)
- Flexure or transverse testing machines (Flexure testers)
- Coulometers (Flow coulometric detectors)
- Spectrophotometers (Fluorescence spectrophotometers)
- Semiconductor process systems (Focused ion beam FIB systems)
- Infrared spectrometers (Fourier transform infrared FTIR spectrometers)
- Goniometers
- Calculators or accessories (Hand calculators)
- Hardness testers
- Analytical balances (High-precision balances)
- Hipot testers
- Laboratory mechanical convection ovens (Humidity ovens)
- Impact testers
- Capacitance meters (Inductance capacitance resistance LCR meters)
- Isolation glove boxes (Inert atmosphere glove boxes)
- Infrared imagers (Infrared cameras)
- Semiconductor process systems (Ion beam assisted deposition IBAD systems)
- Semiconductor process systems (Ion mills)
- Tube furnaces (Laboratory tube furnaces)
- Laser printers
- Lasers
- Semiconductor testers (Lifetime testers)
- Liquid chromatographs (Liquid chromatographs LC)
- Load frame (Load frames)
- Semiconductor process systems (Mask aligners)
- Mass spectrometers
- Orbital shakers (Mechanical shakers)
- Semiconductor process systems (Micromanipulators)
- Moisture meters (Moisture analyzers)
- Binocular light compound microscopes (Optical compound microscopes)
- Optical character recognition systems (Optical scanners)
- Multi gas monitors (Permeation testers)
- Personal computers
- pH meters
- Spectrometers (Photoluminescence spectrometers)
- Ammeters (Picoammeters)
- Semiconductor process systems (Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition PECVD systems)
- Plotter printers (Plotters)
- Polarimeters (Polarographic analyzers)
- Potentiometers (Potentiostats)
- Fish tape (Pull testers)
- Spectrometers (Raman spectrometers)
- Spectrometers (Reflectance spectrometers)
- Rheometers
- Scanning electron microscopes (Scanning electron microscopes SEM)
- Scanning probe microscopes (Scanning probe microscopes SPM)
- Shear strength testers (Shear testers)
- Ageing ovens (Solar simulators)
- Colorimeters (Spectrocolorimeters)
- Spectrophotometers
- Thickness measuring devices (Spectroscopic ellipsometers)
- Semiconductor process systems (Spin coaters)
- Semiconductor process systems (Sputtering systems)
- Strain gauges
- Roughness measuring instruments (Surface profilometers)
- Tension testers (Tensile testers)
- Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers (Thermal cyclers)
- Thermocouples
- Calorimeters (Thermogravimetric analyzers)
- Transmission electron microscopes (Transmission electron microscopes TEM)
- Ultrasonic cleaning equipment (Ultrasonic cleaners)
- Infrared dryers (Ultraviolet UV exposure units)
- Laboratory evaporators (Vacuum evaporators)
- Laminators (Vacuum laminators)
- Vacuum ovens
- Hand held camcorders or video cameras (Video cameras)
- Voltage or current meters (Voltmeters)
- X ray diffraction equipment (X ray diffractometers)
- Spectrometers (X-ray photoelectron spectrometers)
Technologies Include:
- Analytical or scientific software
- ANSYS FLUENT
- Energy-10
- Finite element method FEM software
- HOMER Micropower Optimization Model
- Maui Solar Energy Software Corporation PV-DesignPro software
- National Instruments Compact FieldPoint System
- Optical Physics Technologies SUN_CHART
- PV Optics
- PVsyst
- Regional Energy Deployment System ReEDS
- RETScreen Clean Energy Project Analysis Software
- Simple Model of the Atmospheric Radiative Transfer of Sunshine SMARTS
- Simulation software
- Solar Advisor Model
- Solar and Wind Energy Resource Assessment SWERA
- SOLAR-2
- SolTrace
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Computer aided design CAD software
- Autodesk AutoCAD LT
- Autodesk AutoCAD software
- Dassault Systemes SolidWorks software
- IMSI Design TurboCAD software
- Data base user interface and query software
- Microsoft Access
- Development environment software
- National Instruments LabVIEW
- Electronic mail software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Mobile location based services software
- Global positioning satellite GPS system software
- Office suite software
- Microsoft Office software
- Presentation software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Word
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