Contrast enhancement of luminescence images via point-spread deconvolution

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 307-312

  Walter, Daniel ^a   Liu, Anyao ^a   Franklin, Evan ^a   MacDonald, Daniel ^a   Mitchell, Bernhard ^b   Trupke, Thorsten ^a,c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c BT Imaging   (Australia)

Author keywords

deconvolution; luminescence imaging; point spread function

Indexed keywords

CCD SENSORS; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; EXPERIMENTAL APPARATUS; HIGH CONTRAST; LUMINESCENCE IMAGING; LUMINESCENCE SIGNALS; MULTI-CRYSTALLINE SILICON; NOISE LEVELS; POINT-SPREAD FUNCTION;

DECONVOLUTION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES;

LUMINESCENCE;

EID: 84869428532     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2012.6317624     Document Type: Conference Paper

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