Effect of glass Na content on adhesional strength of PV modules

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 231-234

  Dhere, Neelkanth G ^a   Raravikar, Nachiket R ^a   Mikonowicz, Alex ^b   Cording, Chris ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Shell Solar Industries LP   (United States)

^c AFG Industries Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DELAMINATION; GLASS; PASSIVATION; PHOSPHORUS; SILICA; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ADHESIONAL STRENGTH; SODALIME GLASS;

SODIUM;

EID: 0036948356     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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