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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$17.5M
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Welcome to Spectrolab, the world's leading manufacturer of space solar cells and panels. Spectrolab's product portfolio includes terrestrial concentrator solar cells and modules, searchlight systems (Nightsun series), solar simulators and optoelectronic products such as pigtailed photodetector packages, devices. Spectrolab is headquartered in Sylmar, California, approximately 20 miles north of Los Angeles. The company was founded in 1956, and is one of the world's leading suppliers of photovoltaic solar cells, solar panels, searchlights, and solar simulators. With an employee population of approximately 400, Spectrolab has been supplying solar array panels to the space industry for 50 years. Spectrolab's origins can be traced back to a group of engineers who began providing high-quality optical filters and mirrors for use in government contracts. Spectrolab established its credibility in the space industry with Pioneer 1, in 1958, carrying the company's first body-mounted solar panels; Explorer 6, the satellite that in 1959 provided the first photo of Earth from space, carrying Spectrolab's first solar arrays; and the historic Apollo 11 mission in 1969, which placed the first solar cell panel on the moon. Galaxy IIIC, the world's highest capacity satellite launched on June 15, 2002. It carries the latest solar cell technology (Improved Triple-Junction with a minimum average efficiency of 26.5%) developed and manufactured at Spectrolab. The Ultra-Triple-Junction solar...
Number of Employees 500
Contact Information
12500 Gladstone Ave
Sylmar, California 91342-5322
(818) 365-4611
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing: 334413
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Hall
- 2009-05-25
Hall: The Valley Industry & Commerce Association's Hall of Fame will grow this year to include Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn, Gelson's, Pierce College, Spectrolab and Ritchie Valens. VICA created this award in 2008 to recognize individuals, businesses and other community organizations that have been responsible for the...
Hall: the Valley Industry & Commerce Association's Hall of Fame will grow this year to include Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn, Gelson's, Pierce College, Spectrolab and Ritchie Valens
- 2009-05-11
Hall: The Valley Industry & Commerce Association's Hall of Fame will grow this year to include Beverly Garland's Holiday Inn, Gelson's, Pierce College, Spectrolab and Ritchie Valens. VICA created this award in 2008 to recognize individuals, businesses and other community organizations that have been responsible for the...
Boeing Spectrolab solar cell surpasses 40% efficiency.(SOLAR/WIND ENERGY NEWS)
- 2009-01-29
Boeing recently announced that Spectrolab, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary, has achieved a new world record in terrestrial concentrator solar cell efficiency. Using concentrated sunlight, Spectrolab demonstrated the ability of a photovoltaic cell to convert 40.7% of the sun's energy into electricity. The U.S. Department of Energy's...
Veeco Receives Multi-Unit Order from Spectrolab to Support Capacity Increase
- 2008-07-28
PLAINVIEW, N.Y. -- Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) today announced that during the recently completed second quarter the Company received a multi-unit order for its TurboDisc K-475 As/P arsenic phosphide metal organic chemical vapor MOCVD deposition systems from Boeing (NYSE: BA) Spectrolab Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of space solar...
Spectro Analytical
- 2007-09-15
Spectro Analytical introduced the next-generation SPECTROLAB OES metal analyzer, featuring a new hybrid optic, readout system and an advanced plasma generator.
Delta Develops 35% Efficiency Concentrating Solar Cell Receiver Assembly
- 2007-03-09
TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Delta Electronics (TSE:2308), a worldwide leader in energy technology, today announced that it has successfully completed the development of a certified and cost effective assembly process for the manufacturing of concentrating photovoltaic CPV modules, a new and exciting solar cell technology that boasts greater than 35% efficiency....
New World Record in Solar Cell Efficiency Achieved Using a Veeco MOCVD System
- 2007-01-31
WOODBURY, N.Y. -- Veeco Instruments Inc. (Nasdaq: VECO) announced today that its Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition MOCVD technology enabled an important recent advancement in solar cell efficiency. On December 5, 2006, the U.S. Department of Energy DOE announced that Spectrolab, Inc. has achieved a world record concentrator solar cell...
Metal analyzers with excitation systems.(NEW PRODUCTS)
- 2005-12-01
SPECTRO's metal analyzers Spectrolab and Spectromaxx now feature a new excitation system, the first based totally on digitalized circuit technology. The 32MHz digital control processor drives the discharge and pulse generation as well as the offline control of the pulse generation. The new system enables a...
Electricity from photovoltaics called 'imminent'.(TECHNOLOGY)
- 2005-06-22
Solar concentrators using highly efficient photovoltaic solar cells will reduce the cost of electricity from sunlight to competitive levels soon, attendees were told at a recent international conference on the subject. Herb Hayden of Arizona Public Service APS and Robert McConnell and Martha Symko-Davies of the...
Spectrometer
- 2003-09-01
Spectro Analytical Instruments, Inc., introduced a new stationary laboratory spectrometer as the latest of its Spectrolab line. The new model features the ability to produce standard measurement results in less than 18 seconds, a new digital spark source that results in dramatic reproducibility improvements and a computer optimized spark stand...
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