Trends in Solar Simulators: A Review

Solar simulators are major characterization tools yielding  the solar modules.They are used in photovoltaic industries and academia for researches in photochemistry, biosensors, sunscreen testing and soon. Solar simulators have been facing many challenges  in in terms of construction and characterization as well as in their being used to characterize other devices. In this article problems faced by engineers and scientists  in developing, and characterizing solar simulators are presented.