By combining our multi-purpose lamp housing with a short arc xenon lamp of 150W mounted and an atmospheric filter AM 1.5 we assembled a low-cost solar simulator configurable for different kinds of experiments. The recent setup we built consists additionally of a shutter aperture and a black box to excite reactions in a photo-electrochemical cell with 3 electrodes.
In this setup we used following parts:
Multi-purpose lamps housing with double lens condenser made of silica glass
Short arc xenon lamp XBO 150W
Power supply ZXE 150
Atmospheric filter 1.5AM
Optical bench
50ml photo-elctorochemical cell with 3 electordes
25mm mechanical Aperture
Shutter allowing regulation of illumination time between 1s and 30minutes
Black box of dimensions 600 x 500 x 480 mm (L x W xH )
Plano aluminium mirror with 45 degrees mounting
Radiometer to control the power density
In order to control the power density of irradiation passing through the cell, we used our radiometr
