Vacuum-free, cost-effective, developing-country-material-available solar cell encapsulation

Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells

Volumn 90, Issue 14, 2006, Pages 2159-2166

  Dross, Frédéric ^a   Labat, Ariane ^a   Antonio Perez Lopez, Mauro ^a   Antonio Perez Lopez, Marco ^a   Raudez, Rudolfo ^a   Bruce, Anna ^a   Kinne, Susan ^a   Komp, Richard ^a  

^a Grupo Fénix   (Nicaragua)

Author keywords

Cast encapsulation; Silicone encapsulation; Vacuum free encapsulation

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENCAPSULATION; SILICONES; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

CAST ENCAPSULATION; ROOM-TEMPERATURE VULCANIZING (RTV); SILICONE ENCAPSULATION; VACUUM-FREE ENCAPSULATION;

SOLAR CELLS;

EID: 33745000062     PISSN: 09270248     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.solmat.2006.02.011     Document Type: Article

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