LumiTools 2.0

LumiTools 2.0 is a collection of custom software tools for the advanced processing and analysis of luminescence images, such as those used for photovoltaic research and manufacturing quality control. 

Correct

Import your image from any common format and use the Deconvolution & Normalisation tool to rapidly apply flat-field correction to address systematic vignetting effects, normalize data against exposure time to convert units from ‘counts’ to ‘counts per second’, and to apply point-spread-function deconvolution to account for photon smearing in the camera sensor. Export your improved image data to a variety of common image and data formats.

Edit & Analyse

The ‘Edit & Analyse’ tool can import luminescence images of all common file types and enables automatic or manual straightening and cropping of the sample area. It can also detect, label, and extract multiple samples from an image. The ‘Align and Compare’ tool can import two images and automatically align them using various available image registration algorithms. Images can then be compared through automated pixel-by-pixel subtraction or division.

Calibrate & Convert

Use the Lifetime tool to accurately combine photoluminescence image data with a Sinton lifetime measurement to generate a spatial map of effective carrier lifetime. Similarly the iVoc tool can be used to generate a spatial map of implied open circuit voltage. The Fe Map tool can reveal the distribution and concentration of iron impurities in a silicon samples and the EMC tool can be used to enhance the metallisation contrast of a solar cell photoluminescence image to generate input parameters for metallisation recombination modelling.

Download LumiTools 2.0

Click here to download the latest version of LumiTools 2.0 for free (Current version is in Beta testing and for Windows OS only)

If you use the LumiTools software for research contributing to a publication, please cite the original LumiTools paper:
D.N.R. Payne, C. Vargas, Z. Hameiri, S.R. Wenham, D.M. Bagnall, ‘An advanced software suite for the processing and analysis of silicon luminescence images’, Computer Physics Communications, Volume 215, June 2017, Pages 223-234

A new LumiTools 2.0 paper is currently in progress.

The LumiTools 2.0 software is completely free, but you are welcome to buy the developer a coffee using the button below!

Link to the buy me a coffee website

Terms of Use

The LumiTools 2.0 software, including all copyrights, patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and other intellectual property rights, are owned by Dr David Payne. LumiTools 2.0 is available to use for free for academic use but may not be used for direct commercial purpose, including but not limited to selling, reselling, or generating revenue from the software.

Development

LumiTools 2.0 was developed by Dr David Payne as part of a collaborative project between Macquarie University and the University of Oxford.

The original LumiTools was co-developed by Dr David Payne and Dr Carlos Vargas Castrillon at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

Contact: [email protected]